The future of the world depends on how well we meet it.

Every profession will have its rogues, of course, no matter what oaths are sworn, but many health care professionals have a real commitment to serving the best interests of their clients.

The traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological and demographic developments.

...chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans are thinking, self-aware beings, capable of planning ahead, who form lasting social bonds with others and have a rich social and emotional life. The great apes are therefore an ideal case for showing the arbitrariness of the species boundary. If we think that all human beings, irrespective of age or mental capacity, have some basic rights, how can we deny that the great apes, who surpass some humans in their capacities, also have these rights?

If they [animals] were really to get the equal consideration that I believe they should, we wouldn't have commercial animal production in this country.

Killing a defective infant is not morally equivalent to killing a person. Sometimes it is not wrong at all.

Surely there will be some nonhuman animals whose lives, by any standards, are more valuable than the lives of some humans.