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Peter Singer Quotes

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“What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did.’”
— Peter Singer, Writings on an Ethical Life
Tagged: Ethics, History
“Let us commend to the love of God with silent prayer the soul of a sinful man who partly tried to do his duty. It is by his wish that I say over his grave these words and no more.”
— Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek, Peter Singer, The Point of View of the Universe: Sidgwick and Contemporary Ethics
Tagged: Life, Love of God, Duty, grave, Death, funeral
“When I give talks, people often stand up and say ‘The problem is poverty is global capitalism, that’s what we need to change. Why are you talking about these band-aid solutions?’ I always ask them, how do we actually do that? How do we actually get rid of global capitalism? Nobody’s given me even half an answer for that.”
— Peter Singer, I Asked The World's Foremost Ethicist If It's Okay To Have A Revolution
Tagged: San Francisco, Wealth, Money, Technology
“I don’t think that having great wealth in itself is fundamentally immoral. It depends what you do with it. If, let’s say, you take someone like Warren Buffett—if he was clearsighted about the fact that he was going to use this wealth for good, as he is doing by donating it to the Gates Foundation, and he was accumulating the wealth because he understood he had this talent for making it grow, then it was certainly not immoral of him to keep it. Keeping it was the better thing for him to do. If as soon as he had his first million dollars he donated most of it to charity, he would never have donated as much to charity as he ended up [giving].”
— Peter Singer, I Asked The World's Foremost Ethicist If It's Okay To Have A Revolution
Tagged: Money, Wealth, Capitalism, Warren Buffet
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