Peter Singer Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult to distance ourselves from our own views, so that we can dispassionately search for prejudices among the beliefs and values we hold

  Peter Singer

  Father, Distance, Views

  Peter Singer (1993). “Practical Ethics”, p.56, Cambridge University Press

• Interest in business ethics courses has surged, and student activities at leading business schools are more focused than ever before on making business serve long-term social values.

  Peter Singer

  School, Social Values, Long

  "Putting ethics before profits" by Peter Singer, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2009.

• Bush sees the evil as out there in the wider world, residing in people who 'hate freedom'. Look at his immediate response to the pictures of prisoner abuse; this is not what Americans do, these are not our values.

  Peter Singer

  Hate, People, Evil

• According to classical utilitarianism, the only intrinsic good is happiness; the only intrinsic bad is pain. That implies no intrinsic value in preserving nature, that preserving an endangered plant is valuable only if it benefits humans or other animals. Intuitively, that seems wrong but perhaps I shouldn't trust my intuition here.

  Peter Singer

  Pain, Animal, Intuition

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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