Peter Singer quote: "I agree with Varner and Scruton that the more one thinks of one's life as a story that has chapters still to be written, and the more one hopes for achievements yet to come, the more one has to lose by being killed. For this reason, when there is an irreconcilable conflict between the basic survival needs of animals and of normal humans, it is not speciesist to give priority to the lives of those with a biographical sense of their life and a stronger orientation towards the future."

Well the real concept of basic needs if you cut it right down are simply the physical needs that are...
PETER SINGER

To be a utilitarian means that you judge actions as right or wrong in accordance with whether they h...
PETER SINGER

At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts ...
PETER SINGER

What you could say, and what I do argue in the book, is that he doesn't have as much concern for...
PETER SINGER

I just don't think that the differences you make by donating to a museum or an art gallery reall...
PETER SINGER

Britain has to decide whether it's trying to influence the individual or influence the environment t...
PETER SINGER

It's not going to be the individual ... technical (public health) decisions that are going to hold o...
PETER SINGER

The lack of numbers - missing on everything from how much we are spending to how many are being kill...
PETER SINGER

I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethic...
PETER SINGER

If extreme poverty is allowed to increase, it will give rise to new problems, including new diseases...
PETER SINGER

Putting yourself in the place of others...is what thinking ethically is all about.
PETER SINGER

It is interesting, in this context, to think again of our earlier argument that membership of the sp...
PETER SINGER

As we realize that more and more things have global impact, I think we're going to get people in...
PETER SINGER

Privacy about giving is counterproductive. There is solid scientific research showing that people ar...
PETER SINGER

No doubt we instinctively prefer to help those who are close to us. Few could stand by and watch a c...
PETER SINGER

Most of the robots being developed for home use are functional in design - Gecko's homecare robo...
PETER SINGER

I honestly don't know, but if America continues to refuse to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions...
PETER SINGER

Without in any way minimising the economic and psychological blow that people experience when they l...
PETER SINGER

We may feel the pain of falling back from a level of affluence to which we have grown accustomed, bu...
PETER SINGER

Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and e...
PETER SINGER

Diamonds have an image of purity and light. They are given as a pledge of love and worn as a symbol ...
PETER SINGER

The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to eac...
PETER SINGER

There is no excuse for keeping wild animals in amusement parks or circuses. Until our governments ta...
PETER SINGER

When you look at food as an ethical issue in the Christian tradition, you don't find very much a...
PETER SINGER

Of those who die from avoidable, poverty-related causes, nearly 10 million, according to UNICEF, are...
PETER SINGER

All I say about severely disabled babies is that when a life is so miserable it is not worth living,...
PETER SINGER

I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pret...
PETER SINGER

Those who lie and cheat, but do not believe what they are doing to be wrong, may be living according...
PETER SINGER

The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of co...
PETER SINGER

Hebrew word for "charity" tzedakah, simply means "justice" and as this suggests, for Jews, giving to...
PETER SINGER

Why [..] should the boundary of sacrosanct life match the boundary of our species?
PETER SINGER

We're trying to move away from looking at ethics as scandal to ethics as strategy. We're lifting up ...
PETER SINGER

Ancient recipients of instant news probably couldn't do very much about it, for instance. Xerxes...
PETER SINGER

There is no doubt that the world economy is in trouble. But if governments or individuals use this a...
PETER SINGER

I believe that nationalism is a very strong force, but there are other forces operating; there are t...
PETER SINGER

A week-old baby is not a rational and self-aware being, and there are many nonhuman animals whose ra...
PETER SINGER

In the absence of any general inference from ‘A is a potential X’ to ‘A has the rights of an X...
PETER SINGER

Attempts to defend amusement parks and circuses on the grounds that they 'educate' people ab...
PETER SINGER

I think I get angry when people cause serious suffering or don't alleviate suffering when they c...
PETER SINGER

My own view is that being a vegetarian or vegan is not an end in itself, but a means towards reducin...
PETER SINGER

In the real world, 90% of the money spent on medical research is focused on conditions that are resp...
PETER SINGER

You shouldn't say 'animals' to distinguish between humans and non-humans. We are all ani...
PETER SINGER

Today, if you have an Internet connection, you have at your fingertips an amount of information prev...
PETER SINGER

I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subjec...
PETER SINGER

If we reject, as we must, the doctrine that the majority is always right, to submit moral issues to ...
PETER SINGER

A majority of people in these surveys also said that America gives too much aid--but when they were ...
PETER SINGER

For a long time, rich countries have promised to reduce poverty but have failed to match their words...
PETER SINGER

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the ani...
PETER SINGER

Grain that is used to feed animals that end up on our tables as turkeys and hams could have gone to ...
PETER SINGER

First premise: If we can prevent something bad without sacrificing anything of comparable significan...
PETER SINGER

I am not saying that factory farming is the same as the Holocaust or the slave trade, but it's c...
PETER SINGER

There is no doubt that there is a huge difference between human and nonhuman animals. But what we ar...
PETER SINGER

If you go back in time you'll find tribes that were essentially only concerned with their own tr...
PETER SINGER

If we use goods made from raw materials that are obtained from a poor country without the proceeds b...
PETER SINGER

For a merely conscious being, death is the cessation of experiences, in much the same way that birth...
PETER SINGER

Every profession will have its rogues, of course, no matter what oaths are sworn, but many health ca...
PETER SINGER

When I was a child, my father used to take me for walks, often along a river or by the sea. We would...
PETER SINGER

The hope of Internet anarchists was that repressive governments would have only two options: accept ...
PETER SINGER

Can we really believe that we are living a good life, an ethically decent life if we don't do an...
PETER SINGER

The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world.
PETER SINGER

Robots already perform many functions, from making cars to defusing bombs - or, more menacingly, fir...
PETER SINGER

Dolphins are social mammals, capable of enjoying their lives. They form close bonds with other membe...
PETER SINGER

In most countries, it is possible to visit zoos and see bored animals pacing back and forth in cages...
PETER SINGER

I find it extraordinary that anyone would have an intellectual conversion to Roman Catholicism.
PETER SINGER

I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethi...
PETER SINGER

Google has withdrawn from China, arguing that it is no longer willing to design its search engine to...
PETER SINGER

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals...
PETER SINGER

It's going to be a shared set of values, a shared ethical framework that's going to be the glue that...
PETER SINGER

I believe that in this new world that we live in, we often have a responsibility, you know, to actua...
PETER SINGER

To make sustainable progress in reducing extreme poverty will require improvements in both the quant...
PETER SINGER

Many European countries, as well as Australia, Canada, Israel, and New Zealand, have adopted legisla...
PETER SINGER

In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a maj...
PETER SINGER

This kind of visit is oversold; you would not have a shift in the public opinion. It's a one day sto...
PETER SINGER

the traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, tec...
PETER SINGER

When diamonds' role in fuelling violent conflict in Africa gained worldwide attention, the diamo...
PETER SINGER

To protest about bullfighting in Spain, the eating of dogs in South Korea, or the slaughter of baby ...
PETER SINGER

Sometimes we know the best thing to do, but fail to do it. New year's resolutions are often like...
PETER SINGER

Bush sees the evil as out there in the wider world, residing in people who 'hate freedom'. L...
PETER SINGER

Had Rumsfeld said at any time 'get me a report on what's going on', he could have had it...
PETER SINGER

For example, one way of giving yourself a strong incentive to reach your goal is to commit to pay mo...
PETER SINGER

They tend to be pretty abstract ones then, like doing what will have the best consequences; obviousl...
PETER SINGER

Some vegetarians and vegans may object to in vitro meat, because they don't see the need for mea...
PETER SINGER

We have examined a number of ethical issues. We have seen that many accepted practices are open to s...
PETER SINGER

It was wrong to capture wild animals and confine them in captivity for people to go and gawk at them...
PETER SINGER

Several countries - among them Austria, Costa Rica, Denmark, Finland, India, Israel and Sweden - ban...
PETER SINGER

If you're buying animal products and can go to the farm and actually see how the animals are loo...
PETER SINGER

Of all the arguments against voluntary euthanasia, the most influential is the 'slippery slope&#...
PETER SINGER

I have never really been fond of animals. I certainly wasn't an 'animal lover' when I be...
PETER SINGER

I can tell you that too much money is corrupting American politics. Don't blame the American pub...
PETER SINGER

Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as m...
PETER SINGER

If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something...
PETER SINGER

The price we are willing to pay for safety cannot be infinite. It is distasteful to put a price on h...
PETER SINGER

Voluntary euthanasia occurs only when, to the best of medical knowledge, a person is suffering from ...
PETER SINGER

In a situation where many national leaders do the same thing and look out for national interests, an...
PETER SINGER

If possessing a higher degree of intelligence does not entitle one human to use another for his or h...
PETER SINGER

An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a b...
PETER SINGER

The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.
PETER SINGER

A shared set of ethical values is the glue that can hold us together during an intense crisis. A key...
PETER SINGER

Of those who die from avoidable, poverty-related causes, nearly 10 million, according to UNICEF, are...
PETER SINGER

If governments did not mislead their citizens so often, there would be less need for secrecy, and if...
PETER SINGER

When fish experience something that would cause other animals physical pain, they behave in ways sug...
PETER SINGER

We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet- for the sake of hamburgers
PETER SINGER

It means that, in fact, it's - whether fascist is the right word I don't know - more of a pl...
PETER SINGER

Open government is, within limits, an ideal that we all share. U.S. President Barack Obama endorsed ...
PETER SINGER

More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency.
PETER SINGER

Paradoxically, resource-rich developing countries are often worse off than comparable countries that...
PETER SINGER

There's a difference between early and late abortions. If you have a late abortion, where the fe...
PETER SINGER

In an ideal world, the amount of money we spend on medical research to prevent or cure a disease wou...
PETER SINGER

I don't think there's much point in bemoaning the state of the world unless there's some...
PETER SINGER

I suppose what's happened recently has confirmed suspicions I voiced in the book, and I think ma...
PETER SINGER

It is a very bad idea for governments to create arbitrary and unfair outcomes, or outcomes resulting...
PAUL SINGER

Once I start something, I always finish it. They had been trying to get X-Men made for 30 years and ...
BRYAN SINGER

Derivatives trading should be standardized and as much as possible moved to clearinghouses.
PAUL SINGER

Acceptance means events can make it through you without resistance
MICHAEL SINGER

They're based on a lot of assumptions, but they're also based on some reality on the ground.
AUDREY SINGER

There's no doubt that we are at a high in immigration to the United States.
AUDREY SINGER

Enforcement levels are up across the border, so it's not as easy to get back and forth.
AUDREY SINGER

Take the poultry and meat packing industries. These used to be primarily native-born just 10, 12 yea...
AUDREY SINGER

The royalties that [Cornell] would otherwise be getting are going to other parties as a result of he...
MARTIN SINGER

It's one of the largest films Warner Bros. has ever made,
BRYAN SINGER

Tortoises are being pushed so much, there are places where there are nine or 10 tortoises on one hal...
MATT SINGER

[Since finishing his acclaimed debut documentary] Dark Days, ... about a group of guys who are the b...
MARC SINGER

It's true that monetary policy was too lax for too long, and the government encouraged lending t...
PAUL SINGER

He took a Madame X silhouette and did something new with it, ... There were lots of pieces that can ...
SALLY SINGER

The Orderly Liquidation Authority prescribed by Dodd-Frank should be repealed and replaced by an ame...
PAUL SINGER

Creating a regulatory system that reflects the modern-day realities of financial markets is not as d...
PAUL SINGER

The bad part of the rivalry is that one of us goes home. We're both quality teams.
CLARKE SINGER

I'm actually part of a number of minorities. I grew up being a horribly awkward kid. A terrible ...
BRYAN SINGER

What I had noticed is that there weren't a lot of women lining up to see a comic book movie, but...
BRYAN SINGER

You just have to trust your instincts and hope that if someone doesn't like your idea, you can p...
BRYAN SINGER

I love filmmaking, and I love the process. And I would rather do nothing else. It's a privilege ...
BRYAN SINGER

The courses I took were very rigorous and demanding, teaching me how to draw from real life. I start...
JACQUELYN SINGER

The Swiss came to an agreement they would keep half the gold and the rest would go to the Allies,
ISRAEL SINGER

We remain neutral on [DreamWorks] shares due to concerns about mixed film quality and a lack of cata...
LOWELL SINGER

We applaud the governor for taking the next step in developing a comprehensive energy policy plan fo...
LEN SINGER

[The financial-services market is the current battleground. Sun says 40 brokerages, exchanges, and f...
LARRY SINGER

A few years ago you couldn't find a star who wasn't baring her navel. One thing that's so interestin...
SALLY SINGER

Those numbers are a total function of his name, not him. He has a short record that has been describ...
PHIL SINGER

Check out London, Manhattan, Aspen and East Hampton real estate prices, as well as high-end art pric...
PAUL SINGER

What we call 'evil' doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by...
BRYAN SINGER

This is chump change to Merrill. Merrill can be an 800 pound gorilla and demand money and sue, but i...
BILL SINGER

The building block of every community is family.
PAUL SINGER

What we call 'evil' doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; ...
BRYAN SINGER

Of course. I'm a very liberal-minded person, and I believe that all kinds of people should live in a...
BRYAN SINGER

Given the revelations that are coming out about Roberts from these documents, it does beg the questi...
PHIL SINGER

This is the South Park generation. The conservative activism is fun, and it rings with the students ...
MATT SINGER

We don't live in the world of reality, we live in the world of how we perceive reality
BRYAN SINGER

The test scenes that have been converted into IMAX 3D look, sound and feel absolutely amazing. The m...
BRYAN SINGER

I believe it is a sign that the judge is really pressing the parties to get together on a deal so th...
GEORGE SINGER

I started making 8mm films when I was 13, so I've been directing for 21 years.
BRYAN SINGER

There's no point in making films unless you intend to show us something special, otherwise just ...
BRYAN SINGER

I know it's hard to blame the time, but there's a bit of an expectation for a summer movie. ...
BRYAN SINGER

I identify with Superman. I am adopted, I am an only child, and I love the idea that he comes from a...
BRYAN SINGER

Our compass is pointing in the right way and if it continues to point in this way, there should be n...
ISRAEL SINGER

We really didn't discuss any money today; we discussed the process,
ISRAEL SINGER

Considering the great job Senator Bingaman has done for New Mexico, it comes as no surprise that Eli...
PHIL SINGER

In the last couple years, we've lost some of our momentum at the high end. This is about getting som...
LARRY SINGER

When we first bought Kealia, our intention was to rush products out to market,
LARRY SINGER

We're entering a new marketplace and will grow very fast,
LARRY SINGER

What we're talking about with Niagara is six times to 15 times improvements in performance for certa...
LARRY SINGER

The very first fruits of that acquisition are what we're announcing on Monday. The advantage has to ...
LARRY SINGER

We estimate a fair value for the stock in the mid-high $20s.
LOWELL SINGER

You never want to draw a firm conclusion from a few weeks, but NBC's chances of regaining the lead a...
LOWELL SINGER

To some extent, it's sort of 'location, location, location,' ... I think there is an enormous demand...
LOWELL SINGER

There were times when I was ready to shoot myself,
MARC SINGER

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continui...
ISAAC SINGER

It is an attention-getter. I mean, it's hard to ignore a woman lugging a cello around.
LORI SINGER

What always frightens people is personal exposure, ... Nothing hits home like pricking yourself with...
BILL SINGER

Is it going to stop the practices? By and large, yes. Completely? No, ... The big issue is not what ...
BILL SINGER

I think people will fight about the numbers. But the message here is clear: that people want to retu...
AUDREY SINGER

Successful hedge funds will be entrepreneurial; it is the essence of the craft.
PAUL SINGER

This is like Johnny Damon leaving the Red Sox - except Arnold isn't the Yankees.
PHIL SINGER

'Inequality' has become the political theme/slogan of our time in both Europe and the U.S., ...
PAUL SINGER

You just happened to catch him on a bad day.
BRYAN SINGER

He'd just gotten off the plane and everything. He was a total trooper about it.
BRYAN SINGER

Kubrick showed us something special. Every film was a challenge, and a direct assault on cinema'...
BRYAN SINGER

There is no safe haven in today's markets.
PAUL SINGER

I'll give you an example. Henry, the old black guy who cooks the corn bread, he worked on the ra...
MARC SINGER

Frank brings almost two decades of financial and M&A experience to the company. As we move forward a...
ELI SINGER

We felt that $1,200 was a good starting point for subsidy. Scholarships are available, and no studen...
ERIC SINGER

I'm at the point where I'm very comfortable with my art now and feel that I'm where I should be with...
JACQUELYN SINGER

I just felt much more comfortable at MICA. They have a great teaching program and they make me feel ...
JACQUELYN SINGER

HP can't correct the systemic problems in its enterprise computing business simply by changing CEOs....
LARRY SINGER

Our intention was to give a nod and a wink to people like Giorgio Moroder and the Bee Gees. Stuart a...
SINGER MADONNA

You never want to draw a firm conclusion from a few weeks, but NBC's chances of regaining the lead a...
LOWELL SINGER

It's very different now, my relationship with them,
MARC SINGER

Androgyny is not trying to manage the relationship between the opposites; it is simply flowing betwe...
JUNE SINGER

What I think about derivatives is if every institution that owns or trades them is properly margined...
PAUL SINGER

He compared the intelligence task to solving a jigsaw puzzle, except that you didn’t get the box c...
P.W. SINGER

The Congo is very wealthy from oil money but is not paying its debts and at the same time is applyin...
PAUL SINGER

You just have to trust your instincts and hope that if someone doesn't like your idea, you can prove...
BRYAN SINGER

I'm actually part of a number of minorities. I grew up being a horribly awkward kid. A terrible stud...
BRYAN SINGER

Behind the GOP's bravado, there are a lot GOP operatives quaking in their boots.
PHIL SINGER

The force of the bundle is with us. We are the champions of the all you can eat cyber buffet, giving...
ADAM SINGER

'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'
PAUL SINGER

This is the starting shot for an online land rush across Europe. We welcome this first step towards ...
ADAM SINGER

To get political, I think given the state of where we are in reality today, a good, spooky supernatu...
ROBERT SINGER

Kevin has a unique ability to play humor and villainy,
BRYAN SINGER

He's an American superhero, but he's also the ultimate immigrant, isn't he? And it's interesting to ...
BRYAN SINGER

I never intended to cast a well-known actor. A known actor comes with baggage, and Superman as a cha...
BRYAN SINGER

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