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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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Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of…
— Anzia Yezierska
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On the allegation of withholding temperature data, we find that CRU was not in a position to withhold access to such data…
— Unknown Author
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Whatever you think people are withholding from you-praise, appreciation, assistance, loving care, and so on-give it to them.
— Eckhart Tolle
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Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.
— Eckhart Tolle
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Nichelle Nichols had decided leave the original Star Trek series after the first season. Fed up with racist harassment and limitation, culminating…
— Nichelle Nichols
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Narrative tension is primarily about withholding information,
— Ian Mcewan
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Not to employ prayer with my patients was the equivalent of deliberately withholding a potent drug or surgical procedure.
— Larry Dossey
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Faith is a withholding of conclusion so that you allow what is to arise.
— Adyashanti
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I cannot emphasize enough how wrongheaded this is. Withholding criticism and ignoring differences are racism in its purest form. Yet these cultural…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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I love the combination of smartness, pain, and what one might call conscious postmodern trashiness in this book: a version of the…
— Alicia Ostriker
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Close both eyes see with the other one. Then we are no longer saddled by the burden of our persistent judgments our…
— Greg Boyle
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There is a beauty that arises from withholding judgment and evading comparison, a grace in not demanding consensus.
— Unknown Author
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