"Animal factories are one more sign of the……" — Peter Singer
"Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics."
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198 Quotes by Peter Singer
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Becoming a vegetarian is not merely a symbolic gesture. Nor is it an attempt to isolate oneself from the ugly…
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The problem is not with the athletes, but with us. No matter how blatant the drug use may be, we…
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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…
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I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics,…
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If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter…
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Pain is pain, and the importance of preventing unnecessary pain and suffering does not diminish because the being that suffers…
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People tend to care about dogs because they generally have more experience with dogs as companions; but other animals are…
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There has been opposition to experimenting on animals for a long time. This opposition has made little headway because experimenters,…
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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…
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As for cages themselves, an ordinary citizen who kept dogs in similar conditions for their entire lives would risk prosecution…
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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…
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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…
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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must…
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Norway or Switzerland are two marvelous countries, I very much admire, the most advanced countries in the world in fact…
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While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced…
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Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement…
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America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it…
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Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.
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I'm concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I'm aiming…
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are.
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I think the oddest thing about the advanced people is that, while they are always talking about things as problems,…
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Liebig was not a teacher in the ordinary sense of the word. Scientifically productive himself in an unusual degree, and…
— Hermann Kolbe
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The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions -…
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