Peter Singer Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)
Peter Singer quotes and sayings page 4 (78 year old philosopher). Here's quote # 31 through 40 out of the 128 we have for him.
“The belief that the animals exist because God created them - and that he created them so we can better meet our needs - is contrary to our scientific understanding of evolution and, of course, to the fossil record, which shows the existence of non-human primates and other animals millions of years before there were any human beings at all.”
“But I think the majority of cows, and even more so chickens and pigs, are leading pretty miserable lives.”
“If we all think only of our own interests, we are headed for collective disaster - just look at what we are doing to our planet's climate.”
“Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing.”
“If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library.”
“Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written.”
“You shouldn't say 'animals' to distinguish between humans and non-humans. We are all animals.”
“Today, if you have an Internet connection, you have at your fingertips an amount of information previously available only to those with access to the world's greatest libraries - indeed, in most respects what is available through the Internet dwarfs those libraries, and it is incomparably easier to find what you need.”
“Grain that is used to feed animals that end up on our tables as turkeys and hams could have gone to feed starving people.”
“I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subject to some overriding utility which may prevent its exercise.”
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