« All Our Taste Quotes
·
Peter Singer's Page
Our Taste Quotes by Peter Singer
1 Our Taste quote by Peter Singer
More Quotes by Peter Singer
Peter Singer has 200 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
Becoming a vegetarian is not merely a symbolic gesture. Nor is it an attempt to isolate oneself from the ugly realities of…
-
The problem is not with the athletes, but with us. No matter how blatant the drug use may be, we don't stop…
-
We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a set of…
-
I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather…
-
If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the…
-
Pain is pain, and the importance of preventing unnecessary pain and suffering does not diminish because the being that suffers is not…
-
People tend to care about dogs because they generally have more experience with dogs as companions; but other animals are as capable…
-
There has been opposition to experimenting on animals for a long time. This opposition has made little headway because experimenters, backed by…
-
It may be thought justifiable to require tests on animals of potentially life-saving drugs, but the same kinds of tests are used…
-
As for cages themselves, an ordinary citizen who kept dogs in similar conditions for their entire lives would risk prosecution for cruelty.…
-
With the eventual acceptance of Darwin's theory we reach a modern understanding of nature, one which has since then changed in detail…
-
...chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans are thinking, self-aware beings, capable of planning ahead, who form lasting social bonds with others and have…
See all 200 quotes by Peter Singer »
More Our Taste Quotes
Popular Our Taste quotes from across the collection:
-
When we grow careless of keeping our souls, then God recovers our taste of good things again by sharp crosses.
— Richard Sibbes
-
When carbon (C), Oxygen (o) and hydrogen (H) atoms bond in a certain way to form sugar, the resulting compound has a…
— Fritjof Capra
-
It is not how we breed, keep and kill animals for human consumption that has been the impetus for vegetarianism for thousands…
— Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
-
If we are prepared to take the life of another being merely in order to satisfy our taste for a particular type…
— Peter Singer
-
The more Christ fulfills the cravings of our souls, the more he changes our taste capacities from the inside out. The more…
— David Platt
-
Art, we are told, is a criterion of one's taste. How humiliating, should our taste turn out to be bad. Rather as…
— Ilka Chase
-
Don't sow your desires in someone else's garden; just cultivate your own as best you can; don't long to be other than…
— Saint Francis de Sales
-
The highest degree of meekness consists in seeing, serving, honoring, and treating amiably, on occasion, those who are not to our taste,…
— Saint Francis de Sales
-
We should only endeavour to think and speak correctly ourselves, without wishing to bring others over to our taste and opinions.
— Jean de la Bruyere
-
What is required as we travel towards full unemployment is not new legislation but a gradual change of mental attitude, a shift…
— Tom Hodgkinson
-
I feel that for years of teaching in the country and reading criticism in books, I feel like the things most needed…
— Wynton Marsalis
-
We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as…
— Michael Ondaatje
See all Our Taste Quotes »
Browse Peter Singer Quotes by Category