Peter Singer Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. If our life has no meaning other than our own happiness, we are likely to find that when we have obtained what we think we need to be happy, happiness itself still eludes us. Practical Ethics

2. Belki eskiden bilginler vearaştırmacılar çok önemli sorunları çözmekten başka amaç gütmüyarve kendilerini başka hesapların içine girmekten koruyordu.Şüphesiz bu bazı kişiler için hala geçerli; ne var ki, artık akademikaraştırmaların çok büyük bir kısmı küçük ve önemsiz ayrıntılarasaplanıp kalıyor; çünkü önemli sorunlar zaten ele alınmış ve ya çözülmüşya da aşırı zor oldukları anlaşıldığı için bir kenara itilmişdurumda. Dolayısıyla, araştırmacılar çok işlenmiş alanlardan uzaklaşıpele alacakları her şeyin yeni olduğu, ama önemli sorunlarlaancak çok uzaktan bağlantılı olan yepyeni alanlara giriyorlar. Yukandagördüğümüz gibi, araştırmacılar, sık sık, daha önce birçok defalarbenzer araştırmaların yapılmış olduğunu kabul ediyor, amabazı küçük değişiklikler yaptıklarını belirtiyor ve genellikle raporlarını"daha fazla araştırmaya ihtiyaç duyulmaktadır" cümlesiylebitiriyorlar. Animal Liberation

3. In an earlier stage of our development most human groups held to a tribal ethic. Members of the tribe were protected, but people of other tribes could be robbed or killed as one pleased. Gradually the circle of protection expanded, but as recently as 150 years ago we did not include blacks. So African human beings could be captured, shipped to America, and sold. In Australia white settlers regarded Aborigines as a pest and hunted them down, much as kangaroos are hunted down today. Just as we have progressed beyond the blatantly racist ethic of the era of slavery and colonialism, so we must now progress beyond the speciesist ethic of the era of factory farming, of the use of animals as mere research tools, of whaling, seal hunting, kangaroo slaughter, and the destruction of wilderness. We must take the final step in expanding the circle of ethics. -

4. Philosophy ought to question the basic assumptions of the age. Thinking through, critically and carefully, what most of us take for granted is, I believe, the chief task of philosophy, and the task that makes philosophy a worthwhile activity. Animal Liberation

5. To protest about bullfighting in Spain, the eating of dogs in South Korea, or the slaughter of baby seals in Canada while continuing to eat eggs from hens who have spent their lives crammed into cages, or veal from calves who have been deprived of their mothers, their proper diet, and the freedom to lie down with their legs extended, is like denouncing apartheid in South Africa while asking your neighbors not to sell their houses to blacks. Animal Liberation

6. 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. Writings on an Ethical Life

7. What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did.