"Can we really believe that we are living a good life, an ethically decent life if we don't do anything serious to help reduce poverty around the world and help save the lives of children or adults who are likely to die if we don't increase the amount of aid we are giving."

-- Peter Singer

#Children Quotes #Good Life Quotes #Believe Quotes

“And hate the bright stillness of the noon without wind, without motion. the only other living thing a hawk, hungry for prey, suspended in the blinding, sunlit blue. And yet how gentle it seems to someone raised in a landscape short of rain- the skyline of a hill broken by no more trees than one can count, the grass, the empty sky, the wish for water.”

Source : Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.35, Macmillan
“To reject this inhuman Communist ideology is simply to be a human being. Such a rejection is more than a political act. It is a protest of our souls against those who would have us forget the concepts of good and evil.”
“When a stock is selling at a discount to liquidation value per share, a near rock-bottom appraisal, it is frequently an attractive investment.”
“The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.”
“It seems to be part of the human condition to need someone you can look down on. I still don't get that one.”
“It's true I always try to be as seductive as possible but I wouldn't be here if I couldn't play tennis.”
“Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt. (They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)”
“Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events. The new barbarism of the twentieth century is the echo of words bandied about by brilliant speakers and writers in the second half of the nineteenth.”

You may also like:

Derek Parfit
Philosopher
Harriet McBryde Johnson
Author
Immanuel Kant
Philosopher
James Rachels
Philosopher
Jeremy Bentham
Philosopher
John Rawls
Philosopher
John Stuart Mill
Philosopher
P. W. Singer
Tom Regan
Philosopher