P. W. Singer Quotes
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.
I woke up to the world of science when my high school chemistry teacher introduced me to the elegantly ordered periodic table.
There is no death. How can there be death if everything is part of the Godhead? The soul never dies and the body is never really alive.
Awareness of approach to death can be a beautiful thing, a frame into which we can put the work of art that is our life, our personal masterpiece.
My work is based on the assumption that clarity and consistency in our moral thinking is likely, in the long run, to lead us to hold better views on ethical issues.
As we realize that more and more things have global impact, I think we're going to get people increasingly wanting to get away from a purely national interest.
If penicillin had been judged by its toxicity to guinea pigs, it might never have been used by man.
They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff.
What you could say, and what I do argue in the book, is that he doesn't have as much concern for the lives of Iraqis as he does for the lives of Americans, or even frozen American embryos.
The idea that we can actually have an impact on places more or less instantly, too, by responding in some way or not responding, I think, also makes it true.
At present scientists do not look for alternatives simply because they do not care enough about the animals they are using.
To me the Yiddish language and the conduct of those who spoke it are identical.
Interest in business ethics courses has surged, and student activities at leading business schools are more focused than ever before on making business serve long-term social values.
Individual liberty, the basic underpinning of American society, requires constant defense against the encroachment of the state.
This is a darker Lex too, because he's been in prison and he wants revenge. He's not playing around.
If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.
Learn the lessons of history. Don't let how you feel about your tenure at your organization drive you to make poor investment decisions that could potentially derail a successful retirement.
We are all God's creatures-that we pray to God for mercy and justice while we continue to eat the flesh of animals that are slaughtered on our account is not consistent.
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.
Sometimes you have the feeling that some little imp is standing behind you and dictating to you, but he gives it to you slowly, drop by drop.
One can find in the Yiddish tongue and in the Yiddish spirit expressions of pious joy, lust for life, longing for the Messiah, patience and deep appreciation of human individuality.
In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge.
It's true we pure mathematicians are connected to a different world. But it is a very real world nevertheless.
In many ways, astrology, numerology and palmistry are corruptions of the occult because they have attempted to make a practice out of something that is essentially imaginative.
I am not ashamed to admit that I belong to those who fantasize that literature is capable of bringing new horizons and new perspectives--philosophical, religious, aesthetical and even social.
It's also much clearer how much damage the occupation of Iraq is doing to America's reputation and prestige around the world; and that's just starting now to hit home in the United States.
The capacity to reason is a special sort of capacity because it can lead us to places that we did not expect to go.
I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.
I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics.
Since ancient times, philosophers have maintained that to strive too hard for one's own happiness is self-defeating.
I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subject to some overriding utility which may prevent its exercise.
Once I start something, I always finish it. They had been trying to get X-Men made for 30 years and they thought maybe if I got involved, it might actually happen.
Creating a regulatory system that reflects the modern-day realities of financial markets is not as difficult as it may appear.
Somebody who eats twice as much factory-farmed products as he or she needs to is clearly doing twice as much damage to the planet. From a utilitarian point of view, that's twice as bad.
When things are not working for us, instead of fighting and struggling, we need to say, "What's happening here? How am I not being true to who I am? What is pulling me away from my purpose?"
If you go back in time you'll find tribes that were essentially only concerned with their own tribal members. If you were a member of another tribe, you could be killed with impunity.
When a day passes, it is no longer there. What remains of it? Nothing more than a story. If stories weren't told or books weren't written, man would live like the beasts, only for the day.
