"If penicillin had been judged by its toxicity……" — Peter Singer

"If penicillin had been judged by its toxicity to guinea pigs, it might never have been used by man."

— Peter Singer

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198 Quotes by Peter Singer

Peter Singer has 198 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Becoming a vegetarian is not merely a symbolic gesture. Nor is it an attempt to isolate oneself from the ugly…
The problem is not with the athletes, but with us. No matter how blatant the drug use may be, we…
We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a…
I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics,…
If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter…
Pain is pain, and the importance of preventing unnecessary pain and suffering does not diminish because the being that suffers…
People tend to care about dogs because they generally have more experience with dogs as companions; but other animals are…
There has been opposition to experimenting on animals for a long time. This opposition has made little headway because experimenters,…
It may be thought justifiable to require tests on animals of potentially life-saving drugs, but the same kinds of tests…
As for cages themselves, an ordinary citizen who kept dogs in similar conditions for their entire lives would risk prosecution…
With the eventual acceptance of Darwin's theory we reach a modern understanding of nature, one which has since then changed…
...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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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will… — Francis of Assisi
People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile. — David Attenborough
There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the… — David Attenborough
Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know… — David Attenborough
The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual… — David Attenborough
I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how… — David Attenborough
I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I… — David Attenborough
If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in… — David Attenborough
Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware… — David Attenborough

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