"If we're going to live an ethical life,……" — Peter Singer
"If we're going to live an ethical life, it's not enough just to follow the thou-shalt-nots. … If we have enough, we have to share some of that with people who have so little."
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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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More Ethical Quotes
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WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical.
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If I pick up a book with vampires on the cover, I want there to be vampires. If I pick…
— Margaret Atwood
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The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
— Irving Babbitt
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The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.
— Felix Adler
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No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning…
— Aneurin Bevan
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A country should be defended not by arms, but by ethical behavior.
— Vinoba Bhave
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Stem cell research must be carried out in an ethical manner in a way that respects the sanctity of human…
— John Boehner
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The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course,…
— David Bowie
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Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace,…
— Omar N. Bradley
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Those of us who believe in God and derive our sense of right and wrong and ethics from God's Word…
— Benjamin Carson
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I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our…
— Albert Einstein
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Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human…
— Horace Mann
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