"In the sense that you're not at the……" — Peter Singer
"In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised; my position doesn't isn't unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts."
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198 Quotes by Peter Singer
Peter Singer has 198 quotes on this site.
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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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I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American…
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My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance…
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The public is in need of experiences that are not just voyeuristic. Our society is in a mess of losing…
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We are completely unaware of our true nature because we identify ourselves with our body, our emotions and our thoughts,…
— Jean Klein
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But what was most remarkable, Broadway being three miles long, and the booths lining each side of it, in every…
— Frederick Marryat
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When we raise ourselves through meditation to what unites us with the spirit, we quicken something within us that is…
— Rudolf Steiner
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After my last audition for 'Game of Thrones,' they said, 'Congratulations, princess.' I was like, 'Bye-bye, call centre.'
— Emilia Clarke
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The artist's role is to do what is honest for them. So if you're in New York and everyone is…
— James T. Hubbell
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I started as a fourth-line fighter, went to being a third-line centre, then a second-line winger and a first-line centre.…
— Mark Messier
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All that is made seems planless to the darkened mind, because there are more plans than it looked for...There seems…
— George MacDonald
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But the place which you have selected for your camp, though never so rough and grim, begins at once to…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Go anywhere in England where there are natural wholesome, contented and really nice English people; and what do you find?…
— George Bernard Shaw
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