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- Becoming a vegetarian is not merely a symbolic gesture. Nor is it an attempt to isolate oneself from the ugly realities of the world, to…
- ...chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans are thinking, self-aware beings, capable of planning ahead, who form lasting social bonds with others and have a rich social…
- ...the proposed air force and army experiments were designed so that many animals would suffer and die without any certainty that this suffering and death…
- No consideration at all is given to the interests of the "pests" - the very word "pest" seems to exclude any concern for the animals…
- Once we ask why it should be that all human beings - including infants, the intellectually disabled, criminal psychopaths, Hitler, Stalin, and the rest -…
- If zoos are like arks, then rare animals are like passengers on a voyage of the damned, never to find a port that will let…
- One thing is certain: you will find plenty of worthwhile things to do. You will not be bored, or lack fulfillment in your life. Most…
- Even in the era of AIDS, sex raises no unique moral issues at all. Decisions about sex may involve considerations about honesty, concern for others,…
- In the past 20 years alone, it adds up to more death than were caused by all the civil and international wars adn government repression…
- Killing a defective infant is not morally equivalent to killing a person. Sometimes it is not wrong at all.
- All the particular moral judgments we intuitively make are likely to derive from discarded religious systems, from warped views of sex and bodily functions, or…
- Unfortunately for ethical egoism, the claim that we will all be better off if every one of us does what is in his or her…
- There are some circumstances, for example, where the newborn baby is severely disabled and where the parents think that it's better that child should not…
- My aim is to advocate that we make this mental switch in respect of our attitudes and practices towards a very large group of beings:…
- The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways, posing questions about how…
- All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.
- The belief that the animals exist because God created them - and that he created them so we can better meet our needs - is…
- At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't mean that you…
- If we all think only of our own interests, we are headed for collective disaster - just look at what we are doing to our…
- Do business managers have a commitment to anything more than the success of their company and to making money? It would be hard to say…
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- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- Whenever my pocket money fall short. I start to think my life sucks. Then I think about all those out there who… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Don't be selfish and tell me why you're unfollowing me so I can retweet it for the rest and we all can… — Nikhil Saluja
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman
- I realize my mistake when I lost you in the crowd. I felt the pain n loneliness when I lost you. U… — Anurag Prakash Ray