Peter Singer Quotes

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

  Peter Singer

  Sometimes, Killing, Infant

  "Practical Ethics". Book by Peter Singer, 1979.

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• Todos los argumentos para demostrar la superioridad del hombre no pueden echar por tierra este duro hecho: en sufrimiento, los animales son nuestros iguales.

  Peter Singer

  Encouragement, Nature, Animal

  "Peter Singer" by Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2009.

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• 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?

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Degrees, Doe

  Peter Singer (2015). “Animal Liberation”, p.31, Random House

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• If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it.

  Peter Singer

  Sacrifice, Moral, Importance

  Peter Singer (2015). “Famine, Affluence, and Morality”, p.17, Oxford University Press

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• When the death of a disabled infant will lead to the birth of another infant with better prospects of a happy life, the total amount of happiness will be greater if the disabled infant is killed. The loss of happy life for the first infant is outweighed by the gain of happier life for the second. Therefore, if killing the hemophiliac infant has no adverse effect on others, it would, according to the total view, be right to kill him.

  Peter Singer

  Loss, Happy Life, Adverse Effects

  Peter Singer (2011). “Practical Ethics”, p.163, Cambridge University Press

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• The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.

  Peter Singer

  Philosophy, Sacred, Life Is

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• Christianity is our foe. If animal rights is to succeed, we must destroy the Judeo-Christian religious tradition.

  Peter Singer

  Christian, Religious, Animal

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• 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.

  Peter Singer

  Thinking, Climate, Looks

  Peter Singer (2016). “Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter”, p.316, Princeton University Press

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• To be a utilitarian means that you judge actions as right or wrong in accordance with whether they have good consequences. So you try to do what will have the best consequences for all of those affected.

  Peter Singer

  Mean, Judging, Trying

  "Chew the Right Thing". Chew the Right Thing, www.motherjones.com. May 3, 2006.

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• We should give the same respect to the lives of animals as we do to the lives of humans.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Giving, Should

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• The traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological and demographic developments.

  Peter Singer

  Views, Progress, Development

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• To give preference to the life of a being simply because that being is a member of our species would put us in the same position as racists who give preference to those who are members of their race.

  Peter Singer

  Race, Giving, Racist

  Peter Singer (1993). “Practical Ethics”, p.88, Cambridge University Press

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• Of course, infanticide needs to be strictly legally controlled and rare - but it should not be ruled out, any more than abortion.

  Peter Singer

  Abortion, Needs, Should

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• Hacerse vegano es una forma segura de evitar por completo participar en el maltrato de los animales de granja. Los veganos son una demostración viviente de que no necesitamos explotar a los animales para alimentarnos.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Abuse, Needs

  Peter Singer, Jim Mason (2007). “The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter”, Rodale Books

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• Surely there will be some nonhuman animals whose lives, by any standards, are more valuable than the lives of some humans.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Standards, Valuable

  Peter Singer (1975). "La liberación animal: una nueva ética para nuestro trato con los animales".

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• Nineteen thousand children [are] dying every day. Does it really matter that we're not walking past them in the street? Does it really matter that they're far away? I don't think it does make a morally relevant difference.

  Peter Singer

  Children, Past, Thinking

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• Los racistas violan el principio de igualdad al dar más peso a los intereses de los miembros de su propia raza cuando hay un choque entre sus intereses y los de los de otra raza. Los sexistas violan el principio de igualdad al favorecer los intereses de su propio sexo. Del mismo modo, los especistas permiten que los intereses de su propia especie prevalezcan sobre los intereses superiores de los miembros de otras especies. El patrón es idéntico en ambos casos.

  Peter Singer

  Sex, Animal, Race

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• Since ancient times, philosophers have maintained that to strive too hard for one's own happiness is self-defeating.

  Peter Singer

  Self, Philosopher, Ancient

  Peter Singer (1982). “The expanding circle: ethics and sociobiology”, Plume

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• Every day we act in ways that reflect our ethical judgements.

  Peter Singer

  Judgement, Everyday, Way

  "The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress". Book by Peter Singer, 1981.

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• La gente tiende a preocuparse por los perros porque suele tener más experiencia con ellos como compañía; pero otros animales son tan capaces de sufrir como los perros. Pocas personas sienten compasión por las ratas. Sin embargo, las ratas son animales inteligentes y no cabe duda de que son capaces de sufrir y de hecho sufren por los innumerables experimentos dolorosos que se realizan con ellas. Si el ejército dejara de experimentar con perros y pasara a hacerlo con ratas, no nos preocuparía menos.

  Peter Singer

  Perro, Ejército, Animal

  "Animal-rights pioneer says de Blasio carriage deal misses bigger picture" por Dana Rubinstein, www.politico.com. 25 de enero de 2016.

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• Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Ethics, Vegetarian

  Jim Mason, Peter Singer (1980). “Animal Factories”, Crown

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• Hay algunas circunstancias, por ejemplo, cuando el recién nacido está gravemente discapacitado y los padres piensan que es mejor que ese niño no viva, en las que matar al recién nacido no está mal en absoluto... no como lo estaría matar al chimpancé.

  Peter Singer

  Bebé, Niños, Colegio

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• Hebrew word for "charity" tzedakah, simply means "justice" and as this suggests, for Jews, giving to the poor is no optional extra but an essential part of living a just life.

  Peter Singer

  Mean, Giving, Justice

  Peter Singer (2010). “The Life You Can Save: How to play your part in ending world poverty”, p.21, Pan Macmillan

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• Were we incapable of empathy – of putting ourselves in the position of others and seeing that their suffering is like our own – then ethical reasoning would lead nowhere. If emotion without reason is blind, then reason without emotion is impotent.

  Peter Singer

  Empathy, Suffering, Emotion

  "Writings on an Ethical Life". Book by Peter Singer, November 21, 2000.

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• El altruismo eficaz es aquel en el que utilizamos nuestras capacidades racionales para hacer el mayor bien posible.

  Peter Singer

  Racional, Altruismo

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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