Peter Singer Euthanasia Quotes & Sayings

Legal business has, from the beginning of time, been profitable - to those who have conducted it; because it is concerned with things that touch men's passions very deeply, and because men are willing to pay, and pay highly, for wisdom and skill in the conduct of it. The real merits of the Norman lawyers were, not altruism, but ability, energy, and enthusiasm for their work. — Edward Jenks

You read too many books." "No such thing!" I cried, aghast. — Kylie Scott

You now have learned enough to see That Cats are much like you and me And other people whom we find Possessed of various types of mind. For some are sane and some are mad And some are good and some are bad And some are better, some are worse - But all may be described in verse. — Garrison Keillor

Your destiny is what you make. It's the choices that you make. And for every choice, there's a consequence. — Triple H

'Longmire' is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn't pay a bigger compliment than to want to know more about my character, or the characters on the show. — Bailey Chase

The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive. — Lionel Trilling

Crazy people are hard work. — David Mitchell

Nature is rarely allowed to enter the sacred portals of civilized society. — Hendrik Willem Van Loon

Netball is great for people with a fear of commitment. — Shane Rodgers

Of all the arguments against voluntary euthanasia, the most influential is the 'slippery slope': once we allow doctors to kill patients, we will not be able to limit the killing to those who want to die. — Peter Singer

Standing near the wall, surrounded by what looked like a group of total fratty jockish dudes, was a man. A very fine man. He looked a few years younger than me, with brown hair that fell all over his head in an artfully messy way that looked like he might have just rolled out of bed, but you knew was done on purpose. He had thick, pretty lips that were made for sin, stretching into a delicious smile that showed even teeth. Dimples. Fuck me up, we have dimples! Deep, deep dimples that I wanted to put my tongue into. I blushed a fire red, but I didn't stop my depraved up and down assessment. — T.J. Klune

Voluntary euthanasia occurs only when, to the best of medical knowledge, a person is suffering from an incurable and painful or extremely distressing condition. In these circumstances one cannot say that to choose to die quickly is obviously irrational. — Peter Singer

St. Bernard said, 'Every word one writes smites the Devil. — Lillian Stewart Carl

It is clear that economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science. — William Stanley Jevons

Why [..] should the boundary of sacrosanct life match the boundary of our species? — Peter Singer

A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind. — William Shakespeare

Our eyes see different things, I thought. They always have. Even when we're looking in the same direction, standing side by side. — Cameron Dokey

And said with the softness of repressed violence, 'I am not one to stick his neck out; it is a bit of a reach. I was waiting for the smallest sign that you could love me ... I never got it.'
Laertes, Count of Samothrace — Rebecca Ashe