I'd much rather be part of a society which greatly honors and respects people who are altruists and who are effective in their altruism, than one that either admires people because they're, you know, celebrity movie stars or because they're super wealthy just no matter what they do with their wealth because I think we ought to try to encourage more people to act in that way.
Peter SingerIn appropriate circumstances we are justified in using humans to achieve goals (or the goal of assisting animals).
Peter SingerChristianity is our foe. If animal rights is to succeed, we must destroy the Judeo-Christian religious tradition.
Peter SingerEffective altruism is the form of altruism in which we bring our rational capacities to bear in order to do the most good that we can.
Peter SingerEvolution has no moral direction. An evolutionary understanding of human nature can explain the differing intuitions we have when we are faced with an individual rather than with a mass of people, or with people close to us rather than with those far away, but it does not justify those feelings.
Peter Singer