Absolutes Quote by Peter Singer

“Should one break in and free the animals? That is illegal, but the obligation to obey the law is not absolute. It was justifiably broken by those who helped runaway slaves in the American South, to mention only one possible parallel.” quote by Peter Singer — Download Open image

“Should one break in and free the animals? That is illegal, but the obligation to obey the law is not absolute. It was justifiably broken by those who helped runaway slaves in the American South, to mention only one possible parallel.”

Peter Singer

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (10 ratings)

Absolutes Animal Animal liberation Break Broken Illegal Law Liberation Obligation Parallels Runaway Should Slave South

More by Peter Singer

I have never really been fond of animals. I certainly wasn't an 'animal lover' when I became involved in the movement. I just came…

Peter Singer

Image

Knowledge is generally considered a good thing; so, presumably, knowing more about how the U.S. thinks and operates around the world is also good.

Peter Singer

Image

The price we are willing to pay for safety cannot be infinite. It is distasteful to put a price on human life, but the…

Peter Singer

Image

The hope of Internet anarchists was that repressive governments would have only two options: accept the Internet with its limitless possibilities of spreading information,…

Peter Singer

Image

Nineteen thousand children [are] dying every day. Does it really matter that we're not walking past them in the street? Does it really matter…

Peter Singer

Image

“The unchallenged assumption is that humans may use animals for their own purposes, and they may raise and kill them to satisfy their preference…

Peter Singer

Image

Beginning to reason is like stepping onto an escalator that leads upward and out of sight. Once we take the first step, the distance…

Peter Singer

Image

“Population growth is not a reason against giving aid but a reason for reconsidering the kind of aid to give.”

Peter Singer

Image

Well the real concept of basic needs if you cut it right down are simply the physical needs that are unavoidable for all of…

Peter Singer

Image

“Dairy farmers routinely remove calves from their mothers at an early age so that the milk will be available for humans; anyone who has…

Peter Singer

Image

Attempts to defend amusement parks and circuses on the grounds that they 'educate' people about animals should not be taken seriously. Such enterprises are…

Peter Singer

Image

“A consequence of this alienation of humans from their own nature is that they are also alienated from each other. Productive activity becomes ‘activity under the domination, coercion and yoke of another man’. This other man becomes an alien, hostile being. Instead of humans relating to each other co-operatively, they relate competitively. Love and trust are replaced by bargaining and…

Peter Singer

Explore all 310 Peter Singer quotes

More Absolutes quotes

At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased…

Simone Weil

Image

There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we…

Alan Dershowitz

Image

If you live in a material universe where acquiring things is very important to you, then family is an absolute deterrent to maintaining that…

John Taylor Gatto

Image

Their [the U.S.’s] defense budget in absolute figures is almost 25 times bigger than Russia’s. This is what in defense is referred to as…

Vladimir Putin

Image

This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase…

Gore Vidal

Image

Conservative political opinion in America cleaves to the tradition of the judge as passive interpreter, believing that his absolute loyalty to authoritative law is…

Learned Hand