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May Quotes by Peter Singer
- The problem is not with the athletes, but with us. No matter how blatant the drug use may be, we don't stop watching the Tour…
- 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…
- The statement "I am in pain" may be one piece of evidence for the conclusion that the speaker is in pain, but it is not…
- 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…
- Even in the era of AIDS, sex raises no unique moral issues at all. Decisions about sex may involve considerations about honesty, concern for others,…
- Remember that not everyone is as strong as you are. Be mindful of human weakness, and of the fact that it may be more important,…
- When fish experience something that would cause other animals physical pain, they behave in ways suggestive of pain, and the change in behaviour may last…
- Typically, defenders of experiments on animals do not deny that animals suffer. They cannot deny the animals' suffering, because they need to stress the similarities…
- Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong for our rational,…
- I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subject to some overriding utility which may prevent its exercise.
- We may feel the pain of falling back from a level of affluence to which we have grown accustomed, but most people in developed countries…
- People may hope that the meat they buy came from an animal who died without pain, but they do not really want to know about…
- They tend to be pretty abstract ones then, like doing what will have the best consequences; obviously you wouldn't specify what consequences are best, they…
- You might hold an ethical position that it's wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to…
More May Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- The parents have to learn that the child should not be insulted, humiliated, condemned. If you want to help him, love him… — Rajneesh
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May. — William Shakespeare