Speciesism Peter Quotes & Sayings

Unless you can refute the central argument of this book, you should now recognize that speciesism is wrong, and this means that, if you take morality seriously, you should try to eliminate speciesist practices from your own life, and oppose them elsewhere. Otherwise no basis remains from which you can, without hypocrisy, criticize racism or sexism. — Peter Singer

Enough of this occupation, terror and abuse. We are not in need of your help. We are able to combat and defeat terrorism, and achieve unity. We are not in need of your bases, your experience and etc. — Muqtada Al Sadr

Freedom of speech is not only the right to say as you please, it is also the right to have what you say contested, and where it does not accord with reason - refuted, or with sense - ridiculed. — David Joseph Cribbin

The condition of an enlightened mind is a surrendered heart. — Alan Redpath

All motion is relative. Maybe it's you who've moved away by standing still. — Jerome Lawrence

It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has gilded it. — Aldo Leopold

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

Despite my deep unease about animal advocates working for things we don't want and asking for changes we don't believe in, I am not an "abolitionist." First, the abolition of animal slavery will no more end speciesism by itself than the abolition of American slavery ended racism. To change the world, I think we should aim higher. Second, I'm increasingly convinced that no matter who uses the term, it hides a slur. When used to refer to others, it connotes zealotry and obstructionism, and when taken as self-definition, it is seen as an attack by anyone who does not apply it to herself. Yes, it's a highly defensible moral philosophy, right up there with Peter Singer's application of Utilitarianism to animal liberation, and Tom Regan's Theory of Rights, but like those other intellectual concepts, it's useful only so far as it engenders right action. — Sarahjane Blum

Blimey! There are two of them! — J.K. Rowling

The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness. — Louis C.K.

Now that we have understood the nature of speciesism and seen the consequences it has for nonhuman animals it is time to ask: What can we do about it? There are many things that we can and should do about speciesism. We should, for instance, write to our political representatives about the issues discussed in this book; we should make our friends aware of these issues; we should educate our children to be concerned about the welfare of all sentient beings; and we should protest publicly on behalf of nonhuman animals whenever we have an effective opportunity to do so. While — Peter Singer

She never sets foot out of her apartment or her past. — Hermione Gingold

My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward. — Kurt Vonnegut

We learn from education, experience and people. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Big Bird was the biggest star, I mean, children's favorite for a number of years. I have a 22-year-old granddaughter whose first words were 'Big Bird.' — Joan Ganz Cooney

Isn't it nice to sit down with a good book and take the phone off the hook — Michael W. Clune

When both of you are beautiful, neither of you is beautiful. Together, as a couple, you're less than the sum of your parts. — Chuck Palahniuk