Peter Singer Suffering Quotations
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- Dalai Lama
- Eckhart Tolle
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Paulo Coelho
- Nhat Hanh
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Pema Chodron
- Pope Francis
- Aeschylus
- Byron Katie
- Billy Graham
- Marcel Proust
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Albert Camus
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Mother Teresa
- Samuel Johnson
- Charles Spurgeon
- Jack Kornfield
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Thinking Quotes
I am not saying that factory farming is the same as the Holocaust or the slave trade, but it's clear that there is an immense amount of suffering in it, and just as we think that the Nazis were wrong to ignore the suffering of their victims, so we are wrong to ignore the sufferings of our victims.
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Animal Quotes
If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the nature of the being, the principle of equality requires that its suffering be counted equally with the like suffering - insofar as rough comparisons can be made - of any other being. So the limit of sentience is the only defensible boundary of concern for the interests of others. To mark this boundary by some other characteristic like intelligence or rationality would be to mark it in an arbitrary manner. Why not choose some other characteristic, like skin color?
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Animal Quotes
It would be nonsense to say that it was not in the interests of a stone to be kicked along the road...A stone has no interests because it cannot suffer. The capacity for suffering and enjoyment is, however, not only necessary, but also sufficient for us to say that a being has interests - at an absolute minimum, an interest in not suffering. A mouse, for example, does have an interest in not being kicked along the road because it will suffer if it is.
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Animal Quotes
No consideration at all is given to the interests of the "pests" - the very word "pest" seems to exclude any concern for the animals themselves. But the classification "pest" is our own, and a rabbit that is a pest is as capable of suffering, and as deserving of consideration, as a white rabbit who is a beloved companion animal.