Peter Singer Quotes

Ethics seems a morass which we have to cross, but get hopelessly bogged in when we make the attempt.

Peter Singer

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• In terms of my involvement in 'don't ask, don't tell' and marriage equality and anti-bullying and social emotional learning in schools - these are all things that arise out of my relationship with the world and with my fans.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • World
  • Relationship
  • Learning

• Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Law
  • Moral
  • Ethics

• I don't have my novel outlined, and I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it over again.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Know
  • Say
  • Old

• Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Change
  • Justice
  • Ethics

• Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Time
  • Live
  • Day

• The relations between rhetoric and ethics are disturbing: the ease with which language can be twisted is worrisome, and the fact that our minds accept these perverse games so docilely is no less cause for concern.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Language
  • Ethics
  • Accept

• Transhumanism is the ethics and science of using things like biological and genetic engineering to transform our bodies and make us a more powerful species.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Science
  • Powerful
  • Engineering

• I think that the question is very clear-cut, not only as a matter of ethics, but also as a matter of law, that a lawyer should not be aiding and abetting in a fraudulent scheme, and part of that aiding and abetting would be to draw up subsequent documents in order to conceal the true nature of the scheme from federal investigators.

  

  Viet D. Dinh
  • Up
  • True
  • Nature

• Given the way some fought for the status quo when I authored the new Ethics Code and created the city's first Ethics Commission, we are going to need your strong support to get an even tougher Ethics Code passed this year.

  

  Laura Miller
  • Strong
  • Support
  • City

• If the leading Negro classes cannot assume and bear the uplift of their own proletariat, they are doomed for all time. It is not a case of ethics; it is a plain case of necessity. The method by which this may be done is, first, for the American Negro to achieve a new economic solidarity.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Time
  • Done
  • May

• I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Book
  • Audience
  • Pure

• Most public officials work hard to serve the public good and abide by Oregon's ethics laws.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Good
  • Work
  • Ethics

• Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Women
  • Money
  • Power

• Trading forces someone to think hard; those who merely work hard generally lose their focus and intellectual energy. In addition, they end up drowning in randomness; work ethics draw people to focus on noise rather than the signal.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• My life is as if you've hit me with it.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Life

• And as, in ethics, Evil is a consequence of Good, so, in fact, out of Joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day, or the agonies which are, have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Good
  • Past
  • Joy

• Religion and ethics were not always-or even frequently-mutually compatible. The demands of religious absolutism or fundamentalism or rampaging relativism often reflected the worst aspects of contemporary culture or prejudices rather than a system which both man and God could live under with a sense of real justice.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • God
  • Live
  • Real

• I try to encourage people to look at our past in a critical way because as our education, we have a great, great history. But in reality we are poorest in ethics and philosophy, so I try to raise people’s consciousness on how we deal with our past.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • Great
  • History

• I teach ethics at the FBI academy, which is ironic.

  

  Frank Abagnale
  • Ethics
  • Ironic

• It seems to me as I reviewed the literature that, with few exceptions, the more confident were the prescriptions about how to behave with ethics and integrity, the further removed was the author from the life and work of the everyday manager.

  

  Steve Kerr
  • Literature
  • Everyday
  • Ethics

• In fact, after Donald Trump won, some of the relief of finishing record was to turn off all the politics for a while. There were some songs that had more of the political stuff that we just decided to wait on and put aside. A few weeks after the election, I stopped watching cable news and just unplugged. My way of dealing with the new situation we're in was to just work on something that I care about.

  

  Aaron Dessner The National
  • Work
  • Songs
  • Election

• Relaxing is important; I would like to do more! Golf is a pretty good attempt, but good television, I find, is a great way to chill out and let it do the thinking for you. As long as the programme has got some substance and is well made, happy as a par round of 72!

  

  Mark Hadlow
  • Good
  • Great
  • Thinking

• I'm a London girl, so I grew up on Alexander McQueen and Vivienne Westwood... Dior, Chanel, the usual suspects.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Up
  • Girl
  • London

• Ethics seems a morass which we have to cross, but get hopelessly bogged in when we make the attempt.

  

  Peter Singer
  • Ethics