#aria

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

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#become #chickens #did #health #i

I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subject to some overriding utility which may prevent its exercise. ↗

— Peter Singer

#against #always #exercise #i #lying

Of those who die from avoidable, poverty-related causes, nearly 10 million, according to UNICEF, are children under five. They die from diseases such as measles, diarrhoea, and malaria that are easy and inexpensive to treat or prevent. ↗

— Peter Singer

#causes #children #die #diseases #easy

To be a utilitarian means that you judge actions as right or wrong in accordance with whether they have good consequences. So you try to do what will have the best consequences for all of those affected. ↗

— Peter Singer

#actions #affected #best #consequences #good

A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn't the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#anyway #candidate #commit #cook #going

Beloved friends and comrades... the national Libertarian Party is dead. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#comrades #dead #friends #libertarian #national

I'm as radical as libertarians come. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#i #libertarians #radical

Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#danger #eliminate #fighting #malaria #more

Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better. ↗

— Nicholas Stern

#creates #diet #enormous #enormous pressure #gases

Invariably something happens at a U.S. Open where the golf course gets out of control one day, they have one pin that's out of control. It always seems to happen. But they've gotten better about the height of the rough. ↗

— Payne Stewart

#always #better #control #course #day