Peter Singer Quotes About Tradition

Quotes about: Tradition

• Christianity is our foe. If animal rights is to succeed, we must destroy the Judeo-Christian religious tradition.

  Peter Singer

  Christian, Religious, Animal

• One thing is certain: you will find plenty of worthwhile things to do. You will not be bored, or lack fulfillment in your life. Most important of all, you will know that you have not lived and died for nothing, because you will have become part of the great tradition of those who have responded to the amount of pain and suffering in the universe by trying to make the world a better place.

  Peter Singer

  Pain, Worthwhile Things, Bored

• When you look at food as an ethical issue in the Christian tradition, you don't find very much about it. You don't find, as you do in the Jewish or Islamic or Hindu traditions, a lot of restrictions saying you can eat this but you can't eat that. But what you do find is the idea that gluttony is a sin and that it's something that we ought to be ashamed of.

  Peter Singer

  Christian, Islamic, Ethical Issues

  "Chew the Right Thing". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May 3, 2006.

• According to the Dominant Western tradition, the natural world exists for the benefit of human beings.

  Peter Singer

  Benefits, World, Tradition

  Peter Singer (1993). “Practical Ethics”, p.267, Cambridge University Press

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