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Capacity Quotes by Peter Singer
- ...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…
- It would be nonsense to say that it was not in the interests of a stone to be kicked along the road...A stone has no…
- What is there about the notion of a person, at law, that makes every living member of the species Homo sapiens a person, irrespective of…
- If we compare a severely defective human infant with a nonhuman animal, a dog or a pig, for example, we will often find the nonhuman…
- Suppose I grant that pigs and dogs are self-aware to some degree, and do have thoughts about things in the future. That would provide some…
- Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics.
- Will we rise to the challenge and prove our capacity for genuine altruism by ending our ruthless exploitation of the species in our power, not…
- ...the nervous systems of other animals were not artificially constructed - as a robot might be artificially constructed - to mimic the pain behavior of…
More Capacity Quotes
- God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart." "God gave you life and bestowed upon you… — Rumi
- In any activity, we have to know what to expect, how to reach our objectives and what capacity we possess for the… — Paulo Coelho
- In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds. — David Blaine
- The biggest challenge of public policy is to know when and how the world has changed. We are no longer an empty… — Richard Lamm
- All nations are degrading and consuming their environment to a point beyond capacity. In the past 15 years in the U.S. we… — Gaylord Nelson
- in the spring he will attend your botanical course. his natural turn is very strongly to the objects of your two courses… — Thomas Jefferson
- Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other. — John Dewey
- Religion in the West has a very wrong connotation. It has almost reached to a point where the very word 'religion' creates… — Rajneesh