P. W. Singer Quotes

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering, the animals are our equals.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.

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?

No small dabs of colour - you want plenty of paint to paint with.

Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything.

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise... Because this is how life is full of surprises.

In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought.

I do not judge, I only chronicle.

We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet- for the sake of hamburgers

An artist painting a picture should have at his side a man with a club to hit him over the head when the picture is finished.

Hebrew word for "charity" tzedakah, simply means "justice" and as this suggests, for Jews, giving to the poor is no optional extra but an essential part of living a just life.

A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.

As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.

Becoming a vegan is a sure way of completely avoiding participation in the abuse of farmed animals. Vegans are a living demonstration of the fact that we do not need to exploit animals for food.

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

We don't live in the world of reality, we live in the world of how we perceive reality.

We must believe in free will - we have no choice.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it.

There will never be any peace in the world as long as we eat animals.

Killing a defective infant is not morally equivalent to killing a person. Sometimes it is not wrong at all.

Dolphins are social mammals, capable of enjoying their lives. They form close bonds with other members of their group.

If there was a volcano under their feet, a Vesuvius that could erupt and bury this modern-day Pompeii at any moment, the best thing to do was dance on it.

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it’s dark

If you begin with the middle-tone and work up from it toward the darks so that you deal last with your highest lights and darkest darks, you avoid false accents.

Those who purchase meat, fur, and leather have no right to be shielded from the sights and sounds of the slaughterhouses from which these products were produced.

Color is an inborn gift, but appreciation of value is merely training of the eye, which everyone ought to be able to acquire.

Of course, infanticide needs to be strictly legally controlled and rare - but it should not be ruled out, any more than abortion.

Androgyny is not trying to manage the relationship between the opposites; it is simply flowing between them.

Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics.

Cultivate an ever-continuous power of observation. Wherever you are, be always ready to make slight notes of postures, groups and incidents.

But if we have people who have the power to tell a story, there will always be readers.

Whenever I'm in trouble, I pray. And because I'm in trouble all of the time, I pray almost constantly.

A portrait is a picture in which there is just a tiny little something not quite right about the mouth.

Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God.

Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.

Man prays for mercy, but is unwilling to extend it to others. Why then should man expect mercy from God? It is unfair to expect something that you are not willing to give.

When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

It is certain that at certain times talent entirely overcomes thought or poetry.

I don't dig beneath the surface for things that don't appear before my own eyes.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

Surely there will be some nonhuman animals whose lives, by any standards, are more valuable than the lives of some humans.

We should give the same respect to the lives of animals as we do to the lives of humans.

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency.

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

The future of the world depends on how well we meet it.