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Should Quotes by Peter Singer
- The problem is not with the athletes, but with us. No matter how blatant the drug use may be, we don't stop watching the Tour…
- 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…
- It may be thought justifiable to require tests on animals of potentially life-saving drugs, but the same kinds of tests are used for products like…
- Should one break in and free the animals? That is illegal, but the obligation to obey the law is not absolute. It was justifiably broken…
- Once we ask why it should be that all human beings - including infants, the intellectually disabled, criminal psychopaths, Hitler, Stalin, and the rest -…
- Pain and suffering are in themselves bad and should be prevented or minimized, irrespective of the race, sex, or species of the being that suffers.…
- My view is different from this, only to the extent that if a decision is taken, by the parents and doctors, that it is better…
- Of course, infanticide needs to be strictly legally controlled and rare - but it should not be ruled out, any more than abortion.
- If they [animals] were really to get the equal consideration that I believe they should, we wouldn't have commercial animal production in this country.
- I believe that in this new world that we live in, we often have a responsibility, you know, to actually go beyond the thou shalt…
- When children see animals in a circus, they learn that animals exist for our amusement. Quite apart from the cruelty involved in training and confining…
- There are some circumstances, for example, where the newborn baby is severely disabled and where the parents think that it's better that child should not…
- 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:…
- ...the nervous systems of other animals were not artificially constructed - as a robot might be artificially constructed - to mimic the pain behavior of…
- 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…
- We should aim for our children to be good people, and to live ethical lives that manifest concern for others as well as for themselves.
- If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal…
- If we are concerned about the exploitation of human workers in countries with low standards of worker protection, we should also be concerned about the…
- We need to recognise that what really matters isn't buying more and more consumer goods, but family, friends, and knowing that we are doing something…
- The prescription of the equality of human beings is not a description of an alleged actual equality among humans: it is a prescription of how…
More Should Quotes
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed… — Timothy Garton Ash
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it… — Kevyn Aucoin
- If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The parents have to learn that the child should not be insulted, humiliated, condemned. If you want to help him, love him… — Rajneesh
- A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence… — Margaret Atwood
- Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. — Douglas Adams