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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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The Bible does say, "My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations." Preaching, music, the reading of the…
— Jim Cymbala
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In my generation, this was not the first occasion when the strong had attacked the weak.Communism was acting in Korea just as…
— Harry S. Truman
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Racists violate the principle of equality by giving greater weight to the interests of members of their own race when there is…
— Peter Singer
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Mob rule can not be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this, namely, that Parliament thus defined has, under the English constitution,…
— A. V. Dicey
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No enduring improvement can occur without righteous exercise of agency. Do not attempt to override agency. The Lord himself would not do…
— Richard G. Scott
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The President, in talking about freedom and democracy, is sparking a wave of very positive democratic sentiment that might help us override…
— Bill Richardson
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There are times you will be given intuition, you just know something, and you can't explain it. Don't override it. Don't talk…
— Joel Osteen
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The painter who strives to represent reality must transcend his own perception. He must ignore or override the very mechanismsin his mInd…
— Colin Blakemore
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The function of State coercion is to override individual coercion, and, of course, coercion exercised by any association of individuals within the…
— Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse
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Does the Bible ever say anywhere from Genesis to Revelation, 'My house shall be called a house of preaching'? Does it ever…
— Jim Cymbala
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Remember, the web isn't about control. If a visitor to your site is familiar with using a browser's native form doodad, you…
— Jeremy Keith
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