"Knowing that we can control our own behaviour……" — Peter Singer
"Knowing that we can control our own behaviour makes it more likely that we will."
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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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More Behaviour Quotes
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one of 399 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I'd love to be a diva. But I'd then have to send so many apology notes for my abhorrent behaviour.
— Amy Adams
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There's no map to human behaviour.
— Bjork
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Covering up, so far as I can see, is often the accompaniment to far more truly shameful behaviour than stripping…
— Julie Burchill
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Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities,…
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
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I see litter as part of a long continuum of anti-social behaviour.
— Bill Bryson
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I've seen the real extreme diva behaviour and I don't think that's who I am.
— Mariah Carey
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Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.
— Deepak Chopra
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An act cannot be defined by the end sought by the actor, for an identical system of behaviour may be…
— Emile Durkheim
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On consideration, it is not surprising that Darwin's finches should recognize their own kind primarily by beak characters. The beak…
— David Lack
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Religion is like a virus that affects the behaviour of its host in such a way as to propagate itself…
— Unknown Author
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Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game…
— A. P. Herbert
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When people align around shared political, social, economic or environmental values, and take collective action, thinking and behaviour that compromises…
— Simon Mainwaring
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