Peter Singer Quotes

Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing.

Do business managers have a commitment to anything more than the success of their company and to making money? It would be hard to say that they do. Indeed, many business leaders deny that there is an...

Ancient recipients of instant news probably couldn't do very much about it, for instance. Xerxes would still need three months to get his army together, and he might not get home for years.

As this chapter has shown, we are in the midst of an emergency in which appalling suffering is being inflicted on millions of animals for purposes that on any impartial view are obviously inadequate t...

Helping is not, as conventionally thought, a charitable act that is praiseworthy to do but not wrong to omit. It is something that everyone ought to do.

So the researcher’s central dilemma exists in an especially acute form in psychology: either the animal is not like us, in which case there is no reason for performing the experiment; or else the anim...

Say that people are humane is to say that they are kind; to say that they are beastly, brutal, or simply that they behave like animals is to suggest that they are cruel and nasty. We rarely stop to co...

«La creencia de que existen los animales porque Dios los creó - y que los creó para que podamos responder mejor a nuestras necesidades - es contraria a nuestra comprensión científica de la evolución y...

In most of the world, it is accepted that if animals are to be killed for food, they should be killed without suffering.

You might hold an ethical position that it's wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons - to reduce casualties, perhaps - and someone...

Arguments for preservation based on the beauty of wilderness are sometimes treated as if they were of little weight because they are merely aesthetic. That is a mistake. We go to great lengths to pres...

Everything we get from whales can be obtained without cruelty. Causing suffering to innocent beings without an extremely weighty reason for doing so is wrong, and hence whaling is unethical.

If possessing a higher degree of intelligence does not entitle one human to use another for his or her own ends, how can it entitle humans to exploit non-humans?

If the foundations of an ideological position are knocked out from under it, new foundations will be found, or else the ideological position will just hang there, defying the logical equivalent of the...

Should thousands of animals suffer so that a new kind of lipstick or floor wax can be put on the market?

The United States government continues to pour billions of dollars into research on cancer, while it also subsidizes the tobacco industry. Much of the research money goes toward animal experiments, ma...

They are not describing the number of animals killed for food. They are talking about animals who don’t even get the benefit of supposedly humane slaughter laws because they are so badly treated that...

Words do have consequences, and what one generation says but does not really believe, the next generation may believe, and even act upon.

Worldwide, the poor leave a very small carbon footprint, but they will suffer the most from climate change.

I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.