"If we compare a severely defective human infant with a nonhuman animal, a dog or a pig, for example, we will often find the nonhuman to have superior capacities, both actual and potential, for rationality, self-consciousness, communication and anything else that can plausibly be considered morally significant."

-- Peter Singer

#Dog Quotes #Communication Quotes #Animal Quotes

“People? People have been obsolete for years, They've made the world a place where there's no room left for their own kind.”
“Value denotes a relation reciprocally existing between two objects, and the precise relation which it denotes is the quantity of the one which can be obtained in exchange for a given quantity of the other.”

Source : Nassau William Senior (1836). “An Outline of the Science of Political Economy”, p.134
“We're crazy about this city. First time we came here, we walked the streets all day, all over town and nobody hassled us. People smiled, friendly-like, and we knew we could live here. We'd like to keep our place in Greenwich Village and have an apartment here, God and the Immigration Service willing. Los Angeles? That's just a big parking lot where you buy a hamburger for the trip to San Francisco.”
“Make your kids go out and play. Kids ought to grow up the way you and I grew up and we grew up fifty years apart or maybe more. But we did the same things. Now who's out playing in the afternoon? Nobody.”

Source : "Should we drop kids off at the park - by themselves?", www.today.com. May.21, 2010.
“Nothing destroys a relationship quicker than our fears of inadequacy and loss.”
“Why should physical processing give rise to a rich inner life at all? It seems objectively unreasonable that it should, and yet it does.”

Source : David J. Chalmers (2010). “The Character of Consciousness”, p.5, Oxford University Press
“All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.”
“As you set off into the world, don't be afraid to question your leaders. But don't ask too many questions at one time or that are too hard because your leaders get tired and/or cranky.”

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