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Means Quotes by Peter Singer
- If we are prepared to take the life of another being merely in order to satisfy our taste for a particular type of food, then…
- I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics.
- To be a utilitarian means that you judge actions as right or wrong in accordance with whether they have good consequences. So you try to…
- Hebrew word for "charity" tzedakah, simply means "justice" and as this suggests, for Jews, giving to the poor is no optional extra but an essential…
- Forests and meat animals compete for the same land. The prodigious appetite of the affluent nations for meat means that agribusiness can pay more than…
- My own view is that being a vegetarian or vegan is not an end in itself, but a means towards reducing both human and animal…
- It means that, in fact, it's - whether fascist is the right word I don't know - more of a plutocracy than anything resembling a…
More Means Quotes
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it. — J. J. Abrams
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made… — J. J. Abrams
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams