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Would Be Quotes by Peter Singer
- If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the nature of the…
- It would be nonsense to say that it was not in the interests of a stone to be kicked along the road...A stone has no…
- To turn the other cheek is to teach would-be cheats that cheating pays.
- Suppose I grant that pigs and dogs are self-aware to some degree, and do have thoughts about things in the future. That would provide some…
- There could conceivably be circumstances in which an experiment on an animal stands to reduce suffering so much that it would be permissible to carry…
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
More Would Be 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
- A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse… — Mikhail Bakunin
- I know a lot of shows are like, 'Here's the pages,' right before they start filming. I'd have a heart attack. The… — Alan Ball
- The effect of prizes on one's career - if that is what to call it - is considerable, since they give one… — John Banville
- I try to very hard to avoid a situation where I would be eating cat or dog; I've managed to gracefully avoid… — Anthony Bourdain
- The Imitation of Christ is a cherished treasure of the Christian world. This great book was written by a Roman Catholic monk.… — Swami Vivekananda
- I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful;… — Samuel Johnson
- I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like… — Billie Joe Armstrong