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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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How does one keep from "growing old inside"? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to…
— Robert McAfee Brown
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All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.
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The American people, taking one with another, constitute the most timorous, snivelling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goosesteppers ever gathered under…
— H. L. Mencken
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My vision of the future is no longer of people taking exams and proceeding from secondary school to University but of passing…
— Maria Montessori
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After all we speak of people 'taking refuge' in vagueness -the more precise you are, in general the more likely you are…
— J L Austin
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History...shows that even seemingly miraculous advances are in fact the result of many people taking small steps together over a long period…
— Paul Rogat Loeb
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It doesn't do much good to have a quality image, whether it's with the facility or whether it's with the merchandise, if…
— James Sinegal
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Leadership is people taking the initiative, carrying things through, having ideas and the imagination to get something started, and exhibiting particular skills…
— Charlotte Bunch
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Remember that not everyone is as strong as you are. Be mindful of human weakness, and of the fact that it may…
— Peter Singer
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I see more people taking on the cloak of accountability, more people tiring of the blame game. If we are all connected…
— Jane Siberry
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People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States.
— Louis de Bernieres
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... because it is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible...
— Plato
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