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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…
- To be a utilitarian means that you judge actions as right or wrong in accordance with whether they have good consequences. So you try to…
- Well the real concept of basic needs if you cut it right down are simply the physical needs that are unavoidable for all of us.…
- Open government is, within limits, an ideal that we all share. U.S. President Barack Obama endorsed it when he took office in January 2009.
- All I say about severely disabled babies is that when a life is so miserable it is not worth living, then it is permissible to…
- Bush is morally a universalist. For instance, he says the freedom is good, the same thing is good, all over the world. So in that…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle