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Members Quotes by Peter Singer
- Pain is pain, and the importance of preventing unnecessary pain and suffering does not diminish because the being that suffers is not a member of…
- What is there about the notion of a person, at law, that makes every living member of the species Homo sapiens a person, irrespective of…
- Racists violate the principle of equality by giving greater weight to the interests of members of their own race when there is a clash between…
- So far as this argument is concerned nonhuman animals and infants and retarded humans are in the same category; and if we use this argument…
- My aim is to advocate that we make this mental switch in respect of our attitudes and practices towards a very large group of beings:…
- Dolphins are social mammals, capable of enjoying their lives. They form close bonds with other members of their group.
- If you go back in time you'll find tribes that were essentially only concerned with their own tribal members. If you were a member of…
- To give preference to the life of a being simply because that being is a member of our species would put us in the same…
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- I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that… — Margaret Atwood
- Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The optimum committee has no members. — Norman Ralph Augustine
- I came to the conclusion months ago, and I said it to members of Congress, that the only way people are going… — David Axelrod
- Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof. — Richard Bach
- An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he… — Walter Bagehot
- I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race. — Honore de Balzac
- To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away… — Dennis Banks
- I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And… — Ben Barnes
- I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by… — Birch Bayh
- A new state, if it wants to join the European Union, has to apply to become a member of the European Union… — Jose Manuel Barroso