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Peter Singer has 200 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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The problem is not with the athletes, but with us. No matter how blatant the drug use may be, we don't stop…
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We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a set of…
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I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather…
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If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the…
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Pain is pain, and the importance of preventing unnecessary pain and suffering does not diminish because the being that suffers is not…
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People tend to care about dogs because they generally have more experience with dogs as companions; but other animals are as capable…
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There has been opposition to experimenting on animals for a long time. This opposition has made little headway because experimenters, backed by…
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It may be thought justifiable to require tests on animals of potentially life-saving drugs, but the same kinds of tests are used…
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As for cages themselves, an ordinary citizen who kept dogs in similar conditions for their entire lives would risk prosecution for cruelty.…
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With the eventual acceptance of Darwin's theory we reach a modern understanding of nature, one which has since then changed in detail…
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...chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans are thinking, self-aware beings, capable of planning ahead, who form lasting social bonds with others and have…
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People ask: Why should I care about the ocean? Because the ocean is the cornerstone of earth's life support system, it shapes…
— Sylvia Earle
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Forests ... are in fact the world's air-conditioning system-the very lungs of the planet-and help to store the largest body of freshwater…
— Prince Charles
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The catalyst that converts any physical location - any environment if you will - into a place, is the process of experiencing…
— Alan Gussow
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People used to ask me, 'What do you reckon you'll be doing when you're 40?', and I told 'em 'rocking out and…
— Steven Tyler
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Sustainable development is a process which enables all people to realise their potential and to improve their quality of life in ways…
— Sara Parkin
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I understood when I was just a child that without water, everything dies. I didn't understand until much later that no one…
— Marq de Villiers
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Death is not a curse to be outwitted no matter the cost. Death is the natural pivot on which life turns, without…
— Forrest Church
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My view is different from this, only to the extent that if a decision is taken, by the parents and doctors, that…
— Peter Singer
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We depend on this planet to eat, drink, breathe, and live. Figuring out how to keep our life support system running needs…
— Annie Leonard
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Fundamentally transforming the foundations of the economy is the biggest contribution we can make towards building a sustainable future. The current economic…
— Jonathon Porritt
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Racism is not dead, but it is on life support -- kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a…
— Thomas Sowell
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The threat to free television. The reason television is free is because it is a life support system for commercials. That fundamental…
— Dick Wolf
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