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Would 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…
- Ancient recipients of instant news probably couldn't do very much about it, for instance. Xerxes would still need three months to get his army together,…
- 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…
- Sometimes we know the best thing to do, but fail to do it. New year's resolutions are often like that. We make resolutions because we…
- An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable.
- At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't mean that you…
- If governments did not mislead their citizens so often, there would be less need for secrecy, and if leaders knew they could not rely on…
- Do business managers have a commitment to anything more than the success of their company and to making money? It would be hard to say…
- The hope of Internet anarchists was that repressive governments would have only two options: accept the Internet with its limitless possibilities of spreading information, or…
- When I was a child, my father used to take me for walks, often along a river or by the sea. We would pass people…
- In an ideal world, the amount of money we spend on medical research to prevent or cure a disease would be proportional to its seriousness…
- I find it extraordinary that anyone would have an intellectual conversion to Roman Catholicism.
More Would Quotes
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle