411 Quotes by Peter Singer

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

Killing a defective infant is not morally equivalent to killing a person. Sometimes it is not wrong at all.

So the compromise itself is within ethics rather than between competing ethics, and I think that's true in geo-political concerns.

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.

A shared set of ethical values is the glue that can hold us together during an intense crisis. A key lesson from the SARS outbreak is that fairness becomes more important during a time of crisis and confusion. And the time to consider these questions and processes in relation to a threatened major pandemic is now.

If we are prepared to take the life of another being merely in order to satisfy our taste for a particular type of food, then that being is no more than a means to our end.

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

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

Human social institutions can effect the course of human evolution. Just as climate, food supply, predators, and other natural forces of selection have molded our nature, so too can our culture.