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Something Quotes by Peter Singer
- I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather to reflect on…
- Even people who are aware that the traditional family farm has been taken over by big business interests, and that some questionable experiments go on…
- Whatever the reason, for most of the present century, the literature and publicity of the old established [animal welfare] groups made a significant contribution to…
- What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be…
- When fish experience something that would cause other animals physical pain, they behave in ways suggestive of pain, and the change in behaviour may last…
- 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…
- So, basically, my view is I don't want to support the exploitation of animals, and within reason, I will do what I can to avoid…
- 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…
- If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do…
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- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- People always follow the crowd. Be brave, Dare to do something different. Let the crowd follow you. Instead you follow them. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle