411 Quotes by Peter Singer

Lay off with the 'You reason, so you don't feel' stuff, please. I feel, but I also think about what I feel. When people say we should only feel I am reminded of Göring, who said 'I think with my blood.' See where it led him.

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.

All the particular moral judgments we intuitively make are likely to derive from discarded religious systems, from warped views of sex and bodily functions, or from customs necessary for the survival of the group in social and economic circumstances that now lie in the distant past.

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.

Unfortunately for ethical egoism, the claim that we will all be better off if every one of us does what is in his or her own interest is incorrect. This is shown by what are known as "prisoner's dilemma" situations, which are playing an increasingly important role in discussions of ethical theory... At least on the collective level, therefore, egoism is self-defeating - a conclusion well brought out by Parfit in his aforementioned Reasons and Persons.

Even with censorship, the Internet is a force for change.

If they [animals] were really to get the equal consideration that I believe they should, we wouldn't have commercial animal production in this country.

Some vegetarians and vegans may object to in vitro meat, because they don't see the need for meat at all. That's fine for them, and of course they are free to remain vegetarians and vegans and choose not to eat in vitro meat.

I do not believe that it could never be justifiable to experiment on a brain-damaged human.