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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 vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts.
— Samuel Johnson
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One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all…
— Blaise Pascal
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The third group [of society] are those irresponsible and reckless ones having little regard for the consequences of their acts, or whose…
— Margaret Sanger
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It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other…
— Lysander Spooner
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There are only two answers for the handling of people from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale, neither one of which has…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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The natural law is the origin and principle of all virtues and their acts, therefore we must first speak about natural law.
— William of Auxerre
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The citizens of a city are not guilty of the crimes committed in their city; but they are guilty as participants in…
— Paul Tillich
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Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are…
— Thomas Szasz
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I will make a general statement that we have not had anything like the policy of holding people in high office responsible…
— William Eldridge Odom
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In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world.…
— Luis Bunuel
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[The purpose of a written constitution is] to bind up the several branches of government by certain laws, which, when they transgress,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The first step to be taken by one who wishes to follow Christ is, according to Our Lord’s own words, that of…
— St. Vincent
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