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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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Change for me was really hard because I had built myself up to be a certain kind of man my whole life,…
— Mickey Rourke
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People always say turn the other cheek. If you turn the other cheek, I'm gonna hit you in the other cheek too.
— Charles Barkley
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I began imagining scenes in public which some drunk would come up to me and slap me in the face. Nothing like…
— Max von Sydow
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To turn the other cheek is to teach would-be cheats that cheating pays.
— Peter Singer
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If anyone hits me, they can expect to be hit back, and harder. I never turn the other cheek because in my…
— Alice Bag
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You cannot love everyone; it is ridiculous to think you can. If you love everyone and everything you lose your natural powers…
— Anton Szandor LaVey
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The dictionary definition of a Christian is one who follows Christ; kind, kindly, Christ-like. Anarchism is voluntary cooperation for good, with the…
— Ammon Hennacy
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If you want to help others and become a person of influence, keep smiling, sharing, giving, and turning the other cheek.
— John C. Maxwell
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Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu.
— Gerald Stanley Lee
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I believe in treating others as I want to be treated--but I certainly don't believe in turning the other cheek and the…
— James Hervey
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You know, Sage, Jesus didn't tell us to forgive everyone. He said turn the other cheek, but only if you the one…
— Jodi Picoult
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Forgiveness is not the misguided act of condoning irresponsible, hurtful behavior. Nor is it a superficial turning of the other cheek that…
— Joan Z. Borysenko
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