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Other Quotes by Peter Singer
- If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the nature of the…
- People tend to care about dogs because they generally have more experience with dogs as companions; but other animals are as capable of suffering as…
- With the eventual acceptance of Darwin's theory we reach a modern understanding of nature, one which has since then changed in detail rather than in…
- 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…
- If animals are no longer quite outside the moral sphere, they are still in a special section near the outer rim. Their interests are allowed…
- Whatever the reason, for most of the present century, the literature and publicity of the old established [animal welfare] groups made a significant contribution to…
- Once we ask why it should be that all human beings - including infants, the intellectually disabled, criminal psychopaths, Hitler, Stalin, and the rest -…
- 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…
- To turn the other cheek is to teach would-be cheats that cheating pays.
- Suppose I grant that pigs and dogs are self-aware to some degree, and do have thoughts about things in the future. That would provide some…
- 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:…
- 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…
- ...the nervous systems of other animals were not artificially constructed - as a robot might be artificially constructed - to mimic the pain behavior of…
- 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…
- The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways, posing questions about how…
- The belief that the animals exist because God created them - and that he created them so we can better meet our needs - is…
- Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing.
- Dolphins are social mammals, capable of enjoying their lives. They form close bonds with other members of their group.
- I believe that nationalism is a very strong force, but there are other forces operating; there are tendencies pushing towards a larger picture, especially in…
More Other Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle