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Defective Quotes by Peter Singer
- Killing a defective infant is not morally equivalent to killing a person. Sometimes it is not wrong at all.
- 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…
More Defective Quotes
- The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production… — Thomas Aquinas
- These are the six ways of courting defeat - neglect to estimate the enemy's strength; want of authority; defective training; unjustifiable anger;… — Sun Tzu
- The whole history of these books (i.e. the Gospels) is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry… — Thomas Jefferson
- It is alleged by men of loose principles , or defective views of the subject, that religion and morality are not necessary… — Noah Webster
- To the scientist, nature is always and merely a 'phenomenon,' not in the sense of being defective in reality, but in the… — Robin G. Collingwood
- This is a precious possession which we cannot afford to tarnish, but society always is attempting to make the physician into a… — Margaret Mead
- Woman is a misbegotten man and has a faulty and defective nature in comparison to his. Therefore she is unsure in herself.… — Albertus Magnus
- A theory of motivation is defective if it renders intelligible behaviour which is not intelligible. — Thomas Nagel
- Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in… — Michel de Montaigne
- It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well… — Laozi
- I cannot accept this invitation [to celebrate the bicentenial of the Constitution], for I do not believe that the meaning of the… — Thurgood Marshall