Always wrong Quote by Peter Singer Download Open image “Torturing a human being is almost always wrong, but it is not absolutely wrong.” — Peter Singer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Always wrong Animal Animal - rights Human beings Humans Inspirational Peta
That torture is wrong can never be the conclusion to any line of reasoning because it has to be a fundamental premise. Witnessing to… — Giles Fraser Copy Share Image
If you don't want to be beaten, imprisoned, mutilated, killed ot tortured, then you shouldn't condone such behaviour towards anyone, be they human or… — Moby Copy Share Image
According to deontology it is wrong to kill an innocent human being, period. — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
The main objection to killing people as a punishment...is that killing people is wrong — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
Of course killing people is 'wrong', but I think history shows that sometimes it serves the greater good. — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
It's one thing if a politician in a small country says a little bit of torturing is good to do. There is a qualitative… — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
The use of torture is contrary to sound judgment and common sense. Humanity itself cries out against it, and demands it to be utterly… — Catherine the Great Copy Share Image
Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
If you are sentenced to torture for a crime, yes, that is a cruel punishment. But the mere fact that somebody is tortured is… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share Image
“Population growth is not a reason against giving aid but a reason for reconsidering the kind of aid to give.” — Peter Singer Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
People who try to predict the future by extrapolating in a line of more of what exists - they are always wrong. — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Pay no heed to the passing religious vogue. Go back to the grass roots. Open your hearts and search the Scriptures. Bear your cross,… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Apparently, an undocumented side effect of dope is a gross overestimation of one's own intelligence. Dopers become convinced they've hidden their stash so well… — Alafair Burke Copy Share Image
Since the majority is always wrong, might we try one election day where all the losers take office? — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
you may take it from me, that however hard you try - or don't try; whatever you do - or don't do; for better,… — Gwen Raverat Copy Share Image
Power is the pivot on which everything hinges. He who has the power is always right; the weaker is always wrong. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
She didn't give George any too easy a time when she was alive. She was one of those semi-invalids – I believe she had… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Without the instruments and accumulated knowledge of the natural sciences... humans are trapped in a cognitive prison. They are like intelligent fish born in… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
People recognize me from everything and as soon as I think I know where they know me from, I'm always wrong. — Niecy Nash Copy Share Image
So, economics should emulate physics' basic ethos, but its search for precision in physics-like formulas is almost always wrong in economics. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
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