P. W. Singer Quotes

When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.

History is not going to look kindly on us if we just keep our head in the sand on armed autonomous robotics issue because it sounds too science fiction.

There is a permanent amnesia planted in us, which just as we keep forgetting our dreams, we sometimes keep on forgetting our reality.

We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a set of worked-out rules on what we are supposed to do then, yes, it is a human product.

There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.

A person with normal eyesight would have nothing to know in the way of 'Impressionism' unless he were in a blinding light or in the dusk or dark.

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

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

Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

The more you see what other people do, the more you learn about yourself.

Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.

What a strange power there is in clothing.

Make the best of an emergency.

There is a growing movement called effective altruism. It's important because it combines both the heart and the head.

Effective altruism is the form of altruism in which we bring our rational capacities to bear in order to do the most good that we can.

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

As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis.

Personal purity isn’t really the issue. Not supporting animal abuse – and persuading others not to support it – is.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

Literature is the memory of humanity.

Man is a disgusting thing. If you beat him he starts to scream, but if it is the other one who is beaten, then he constructs a theory.

I love filmmaking, and I love the process. And I would rather do nothing else. It's a privilege to be able to paint such big pictures, so to speak.

I don't invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions... Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to read them.

In the history of old Jewish literature there was never any basic difference between the poet and the prophet. Our ancient poetry often became law and a way of life.

All that God does is for the good.

Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

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

It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood.

I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.

With love that knew no fear, the Singer caught his torment, wrapped it all in song and gave it back to him as peace.

Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world.

The thicker you paint, the more it flows.

A Marxist has never written a good novel.

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

The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.

Perception has always interested me. The idea thatbehind every face, there are a thousand faces. Beneath the placidveneer of middle America, there lies terror.

The soul never dies and the body is never really alive.

One has to trust that God knows how to manage the world.

In God's mill even chaff becomes flour.

I get up every morning with a desire to do some creative work. This desire is made of the same stuff as the sexual desire, the desire to make money, or any other desire.

No lepidopterist's collection in the entire world...full if iridescent wings, is worth the life of a single butterfly.

How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shed its blood? How can we pray to God for mercy if we ourselves have no mercy? Nobel laureate in literature.

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

Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics.

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.