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Animals Quotes by Peter Singer
- 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…
- People tend to care about dogs because they generally have more experience with dogs as companions; but other animals are as capable of suffering as…
- There has been opposition to experimenting on animals for a long time. This opposition has made little headway because experimenters, backed by commercial firms that…
- It may be thought justifiable to require tests on animals of potentially life-saving drugs, but the same kinds of tests are used for products like…
- With the eventual acceptance of Darwin's theory we reach a modern understanding of nature, one which has since then changed in detail rather than in…
- Should one break in and free the animals? That is illegal, but the obligation to obey the law is not absolute. It was justifiably broken…
- Habits of thought lead us to brush aside descriptions of cruelty to animals as emotional, for "animal-lovers only"; or if not that, then anyway the…
- Sometimes animals may suffer more because of their more limited understanding. If, for instance, we are taking prisoners in wartime we can explain to them…
- ...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…
- If animals are no longer quite outside the moral sphere, they are still in a special section near the outer rim. Their interests are allowed…
- It is an indication of the extent to which people are now isolated from the animals they eat that children brought up on storybooks that…
- The newspapers do little better. Their coverage of nonhuman animals is dominated by "human interest" events like the birth of a baby gorilla at the…
- Whatever the reason, for most of the present century, the literature and publicity of the old established [animal welfare] groups made a significant contribution to…
- 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 -…
- We ought to consider the interests of animals because they have interests and it is unjustifiable to exclude them from the sphere of moral concern;…
- 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…
- So far as this argument is concerned nonhuman animals and infants and retarded humans are in the same category; and if we use this argument…
- Pain and suffering are in themselves bad and should be prevented or minimized, irrespective of the race, sex, or species of the being that suffers.…
- By ceasing to rear and kill animals for food, we can make so much extra food available for humans that, properly distributed, it would eliminate…
More Animals Quotes
- Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. — Mary Kay Ash
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins… — Diane Ackerman
- One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out… — C.S. Lewis
- We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals? — Brigitte Bardot
- I blame it on Walt Disney, where animals are given human qualities. People don't understand that a wild animal is not something… — James Cameron
- An irrefutable proof that such single-celled primaeval animals really existed as the direct ancestors of Man, is furnished according to the fundamental… — Ernst Haeckel
- It is not only visitors to the zoo who are fascinated but uneasy in the presence of chimpanzees; the same is true… — Frans de Waal