Peter SingerThe new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways, posing questions about how we should respond to people whe… ▶361HumanityPolitics
Peter SingerTorturing a human being is almost always wrong, but it is not absolutely wrong. ✨ Peter Singer (1975). Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals374Humanity
Peter SingerThe animal liberation movement is saying that where animals and humans have similar interests - we might take the interest in avoiding physical pain as an example, for it is an in… ▶374HumanitySadness
Peter SingerWere we incapable of empathy – of putting ourselves in the position of others and seeing that their suffering is like our own – then ethical reasoning would lead nowhere. If emoti… ▶342LifeReading
Peter SingerWhen children see animals in a circus, they learn that animals exist for our amusement. Quite apart from the cruelty involved in training and confining these animals, the whole id… ▶365Thought
Peter SingerWe are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet- for the sake of hamburgers321HopeTime
Peter SingerWithout in any way minimising the economic and psychological blow that people experience when they lose their jobs, the unemployed in affluent countries still have a safety net, i… ▶354HumanityLifeTime
Peter SingerThe statement I am in pain may be one piece of evidence for the conclusion that the speaker is in pain, but it is not the only possible evidence, and since people sometimes tell l… ▶311HumanityPoliticsSadness
Peter SingerWe are not especially 'interested in' animals. Neither of us had ever been inordinately fond of dogs, cats, or horses in the way that many people are. We didn't 'love' animals. 333HumanityLove
Peter SingerSo, basically, my view is I don't want to support the exploitation of animals, and within reason, I will do what I can to avoid it, but it's not like it's a religion for me. It's … ▶377Reflection
Peter SingerIn 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 respec… ▶322PoliticsThought
Peter SingerIf we are concerned about the exploitation of human workers in countries with low standards of worker protection, we should also be concerned about the treatment of even more defe… ▶366Humanity
Peter SingerAnimal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics. ✨ Jim Mason, Peter Singer (1980). Animal Factori… ▶377Truth
Peter SingerAs we realize that more and more things have global impact, I think we're going to get people increasingly wanting to get away from a purely national interest.355HumanityThought
Peter SingerKilling a defective infant is not morally equivalent to killing a person. Sometimes it is not wrong at all. ✨ Practical Ethics. Book by Peter Singer, 1979.344ReadingTime
Peter SingerWith the eventual acceptance of Darwin's theory we reach a modern understanding of nature, one which has since then changed in detail rather than in fundamentals. Only those who p… ▶378HopeHumanity
Peter SingerIt may be thought justifiable to require tests on animals of potentially life-saving drugs, but the same kinds of tests are used for products like cosmetics, food coloring, and fl… ▶367HopeLifeReading
Peter SingerThere is a growing movement called effective altruism. It's important because it combines both the heart and the head.345Love
Peter SingerMy view is different from this, only to the extent that if a decision is taken, by the parents and doctors, that it is better that a baby should die, I believe it should be possib… ▶301DeathHumanityLife
Peter SingerThe newspapers do little better. Their coverage of nonhuman animals is dominated by human interest events like the birth of a baby gorilla at the zoo, or by threats to endangered … ▶368Humanity
Peter SingerI believe that in this new world that we live in, we often have a responsibility, you know, to actually go beyond the thou shalt nots - that is, the not harming others - and say w… ▶335Reflection
Peter SingerIt's also much clearer how much damage the occupation of Iraq is doing to America's reputation and prestige around the world; and that's just starting now to hit home in the Unite… ▶346Politics
Peter SingerIf penicillin had been judged by its toxicity to guinea pigs, it might never have been used by man. ✨ Peter Singer (1975). Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment … ▶325Love
Peter SingerIt would be nonsense to say that it was not in the interests of a stone to be kicked along the road...A stone has no interests because it cannot suffer. The capacity for suffering… ▶358Humanity
Peter SingerPersonal purity isn’t really the issue. Not supporting animal abuse – and persuading others not to support it – is. ✨ Peter Singer, Jim Mason (2007). The Ethics of What We E… ▶292Truth
Peter SingerI can tell you that too much money is corrupting American politics. Don't blame the American public. The U.S. Supreme Court has a lot to answer for, because it has made it impossi… ▶303LifePolitics
Peter SingerI do not believe that it could never be justifiable to experiment on a brain-damaged human.271HumanityThought
Peter SingerIf you earn a lot of money, you can give away a lot of money.348Politics
Peter SingerIf governments did not mislead their citizens so often, there would be less need for secrecy, and if leaders knew they could not rely on keeping the public in the dark about what … ▶348Politics
Peter SingerMore often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency.3610Death
