Peter Singer Quotes

Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing.
Peter Singer

Business, Law, Problems

Do business managers have a commitment to anything more than the success of their company and to making money? It would be hard to say that they do. Indeed, many business leaders deny that there is any conflict between self-interest and the interests of all.
Peter Singer

Success, Money, Business

Dolphins are social mammals, capable of enjoying their lives. They form close bonds with other members of their group.
Peter Singer

Group, Social, Lives

Every profession will have its rogues, of course, no matter what oaths are sworn, but many health care professionals have a real commitment to serving the best interests of their clients.
Peter Singer

Health, Best, Care

For example, one way of giving yourself a strong incentive to reach your goal is to commit to pay money to someone if you fail. Better yet, you can specify that you will have to pay a certain sum to a cause that you detest.
Peter Singer

Money, Yourself, Strong

Grain that is used to feed animals that end up on our tables as turkeys and hams could have gone to feed starving people.
Peter Singer

End, Used, Gone

Had Rumsfeld said at any time 'get me a report on what's going on', he could have had it. You're right, it depends on choices that we make, which parts of the world we want to be in immediate contact with.
Peter Singer

Time, Said, Choices

I believe that nationalism is a very strong force, but there are other forces operating; there are tendencies pushing towards a larger picture, especially in Europe, I think; but I still think nationalism is real.
Peter Singer

Strong, Real, Picture

I can tell you that too much money is corrupting American politics. Don't blame the American public. The U.S. Supreme Court has a lot to answer for, because it has made it impossible for Congress to reduce the corrupting influence of money on American political life.
Peter Singer

Life, Politics, Money

I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field; it's in contention with a lot of different things.
Peter Singer

Alone, Different, Holding

I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics.
Peter Singer

Means, Compromise, Ethics

I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.
Peter Singer

Nature, Understand, Pretty

I honestly don't know, but if America continues to refuse to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, I see a bleak future not only for American society, but for the world as a whole. This is a global problem that is not going away, and the United States is an obstacle to solving it.
Peter Singer

Future, Society, America

I suppose what's happened recently has confirmed suspicions I voiced in the book, and I think made clearer some of those things that I point out. For instance I have a section of the book where I talk about the possibility of torture.
Peter Singer

Book, Made, Talk

I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics.
Peter Singer

Thoughtful, Ethics, Reflective

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.
Peter Singer

May, Against, Exercise

If governments did not mislead their citizens so often, there would be less need for secrecy, and if leaders knew they could not rely on keeping the public in the dark about what they are doing, they would have a powerful incentive to behave better.
Peter Singer

Powerful, Dark, Often

If we all think only of our own interests, we are headed for collective disaster - just look at what we are doing to our planet's climate.
Peter Singer

Interests, Planet, Disaster

If we are concerned about the exploitation of human workers in countries with low standards of worker protection, we should also be concerned about the treatment of even more defenceless non-human animals.
Peter Singer

Human, Concerned, Countries

If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library.
Peter Singer

Human, Put, Able

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.
Peter Singer

Time, Find, Another

In a democracy, citizens pass judgment on their government, and if they are kept in the dark about what their government is doing, they cannot be in a position to make well-grounded decisions.
Peter Singer

Government, Democracy, Dark

In a situation where many national leaders do the same thing and look out for national interests, and with an issue like global warming, you're likely to get no solution, so I think you have to have some kind of ethical trump on some of those issues.
Peter Singer

Same, Situation, Leaders

In most of the world, it is accepted that if animals are to be killed for food, they should be killed without suffering.
Peter Singer

Food, Suffering, Accepted

In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised; my position doesn't isn't unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts.
Peter Singer

Power, Respect, Different

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Biography

Nationality: Australian

Type: Philosopher

Born: July 6, 1946

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