Best quotes by Peter Singer on People
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‟ It was wrong to capture wild animals and confine them in captivity for people to go and gawk at them. And that's basically how zoos got started. But once you do that, and once you have animals that have been bred in captivity, you're really stuck with them in some sense. You can't return them to the wild.
- Peter Singer
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‟ We should aim for our children to be good people, and to live ethical lives that manifest concern for others as well as for themselves.
- Peter Singer
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‟ I don't eat meat. I've been a vegetarian since 1971. I've gradually become increasingly vegan. I am largely vegan, but I'm a flexible vegan. I don't go to the supermarket and buy non-vegan stuff for myself. But when I'm traveling or going to other people's places, I will be quite happy to eat vegetarian rather than vegan.
- Peter Singer
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‟ Attempts to defend amusement parks and circuses on the grounds that they 'educate' people about animals should not be taken seriously. Such enterprises are part of the commercial entertainment industry. The most important lesson they teach impressionable young minds is that it is acceptable to keep animals in captivity for human amusement.
- Peter Singer
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‟ We tend to think that people are more to blame for their acts than for their omissions.
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‟ As we realize that more and more things have global impact, I think we're going to get people increasingly wanting to get away from a purely national interest.
- Peter Singer
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‟ At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't mean that you can't think of overarching ethical principles you would want people to follow in all kinds of places.
- Peter Singer