"The traditional view of the sanctity of human……" — Peter Singer
"The traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological and demographic developments."
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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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An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the…
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You know, we all have our inner demons. I, for one - I can't speak for you, but I'm on…
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A nation without borders is like a house without walls - it collapses. And that is what is going to…
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After the collapse of Wall Street in the 1920s, the culture stopped being all about money, and the country survived…
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I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety,…
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All nations are degrading and consuming their environment to a point beyond capacity. In the past 15 years in the…
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Falling in love is not an extension of one's limits or boundaries; it is a partial and temporary collapse of…
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When the enemy starts to collapse you must pursue him without the chance of letting go. If you fail to…
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We've painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare - triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the…
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When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is insubordination. When the officers are…
— Sun Tzu
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Now an army is exposed to six several calamities, not arising from natural causes, 1 but from faults for which…
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