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Peter Singer has 200 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Becoming a vegetarian is not merely a symbolic gesture. Nor is it an attempt to isolate oneself from the ugly realities of…
• I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather…
• If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the…
• There has been opposition to experimenting on animals for a long time. This opposition has made little headway because experimenters, backed by…
• Should one break in and free the animals? That is illegal, but the obligation to obey the law is not absolute. It…
• Habits of thought lead us to brush aside descriptions of cruelty to animals as emotional, for "animal-lovers only"; or if not that,…
• It would be nonsense to say that it was not in the interests of a stone to be kicked along the road...A…
• The statement "I am in pain" may be one piece of evidence for the conclusion that the speaker is in pain, but…

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