Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I'd much rather be part of a society which greatly honors and respects people who are altruists and who are effective in their altruism, than one that either admires people because they're, you know, celebrity movie stars or because they're super wealthy just no matter what they do with their wealth because I think we ought to try to encourage more people to act in that way.

Peter Singer's Popular Quotes

Typically, defenders of experiments on animals do not deny that animals suffer. They cannot deny the animals' suffering, because they need to stress …

- Peter Singer

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…

- Peter Singer

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

- Peter Singer

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

- Peter Singer

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

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

- Peter Singer

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

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One thing is certain: you will find plenty of worthwhile things to do. You will not be bored, or lack fulfillment in your life. Most important of all…

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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