Peter Singer Quotes About Animal Rights

Quotes about: Animal Rights

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

  Peter Singer

  Encouragement, Nature, Animal

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

• 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

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

  Peter Singer

  Christian, Religious, Animal

• 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). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”

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

  Peter Singer

  Believe, Animal, Brain

• An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Brain, Important

• The prescription of the equality of human beings is not a description of an alleged actual equality among humans: it is a prescription of how we should treat human beings.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Should, Treats

  Peter Singer (1986). “Applied Ethics”, p.220, Oxford University Press, USA

• 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.

  Peter Singer

  Country, Believe, Animal

• Torturing a human being is almost always wrong, but it is not absolutely wrong.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Peta, Always Wrong

  Peter Singer (1975). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”

• There could conceivably be circumstances in which an experiment on an animal stands to reduce suffering so much that it would be permissible to carry it out even if it involved harm to the animal... [even if] the animal were a human being.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Suffering, Would Be

• In appropriate circumstances we are justified in using humans to achieve goals (or the goal of assisting animals).

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Goal, Justified

• We are not especially 'interested in' animals. Neither of us had ever been inordinately fond of dogs, cats, or horses in the way that many people are. We didn't 'love' animals.

  Peter Singer

  Dog, Horse, Cat

  Peter Singer (1975). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”

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