"If possessing a higher degree of intelligence does not entitle one human to use another for his or her own ends, how can it entitle humans to exploit non-humans?"

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Source : Peter Singer (2015). “Animal Liberation”, p.31, Random House

Peter Singer

#Animal Quotes #Doe Quotes #Use Quotes

“A leader may be the most knowledgeable person in the world, but if the players on his team cannot translate that knowledge into action, it means nothing.”
“While the Lord will magnify us in both subtle and dramatic ways, he can only guide our footsteps when we move our feet.”
“Reduction! One wants to say more than nature and one makes the impossible mistake of wanting to say it with more means than she, instead of fewer.”
“Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.”
“Rock and roll seems to have had a mellowing in the business where it got harder to sell individual records and make money doing that.”
“While I have served in public office for 30 years, my professional training is as a pharmacist, not a lawyer or an accountant.”
“I've grown up knowing that you put as much of your private life out there as you feel comfortable with.”
“In life we do many things, say many things, but the voice of suffering offered out of love - which is perhaps unheard by and unknown to others - is the loudest cry that can penetrate Heaven”

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