Irgendwo war mir ein Rest von Glauben an den freien Willen geblieben, aber an diesem Morgen war ich sicher, dem Menschen blieb so viel freie Wahl wie dem Uhrwerk in meiner Armbanduhr oder der Fliege, die auf dem Rand meiner Untertasse saß. Es waren die gleichen Kräfte, die Hitler, Stalin, den Papst, den Rabbi von Gur und ein Molekül in der Mitte der Erde antrieben, wie auch ein Sternbild, das Milliarden Lichtjahre entfernt von der Milchstraße war. Blinde Mächte? Sehende Mächte? Es war gleichgültig geworden. Es war uns bestimmt, unsere kleinen Spiele zu spielen und zermalmt zu werden.


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I have never really been fond of animals. I certainly wasn't an 'animal lover' when I be...
PETER SINGER
Most of the robots being developed for home use are functional in design - Gecko's homecare robo...
PETER SINGER
Androgyny is not trying to manage the relationship between the opposites; it is simply flowing betwe...
JUNE SINGER
Androgyny refers to a specific way of joining the 'masculine' and 'feminine' aspects...
JUNE SINGER
I honestly don't know, but if America continues to refuse to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions...
PETER SINGER
I can tell you that too much money is corrupting American politics. Don't blame the American pub...
PETER SINGER
The hope of Internet anarchists was that repressive governments would have only two options: accept ...
PETER SINGER
Attempts to defend amusement parks and circuses on the grounds that they 'educate' people ab...
PETER SINGER
In the real world, 90% of the money spent on medical research is focused on conditions that are resp...
PETER SINGER
At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts ...
PETER SINGER
You just happened to catch him on a bad day.
BRYAN SINGER
I started making 8mm films when I was 13, so I've been directing for 21 years.
BRYAN SINGER
What we call 'evil' doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; ...
BRYAN SINGER
In certain places, for whatever reason, just for being Caucasian or having blue eyes, someone might ...
BRYAN SINGER
Once I start something, I always finish it. They had been trying to get X-Men made for 30 years and ...
BRYAN SINGER
Of course. I'm a very liberal-minded person, and I believe that all kinds of people should live in a...
BRYAN SINGER
You just have to trust your instincts and hope that if someone doesn't like your idea, you can prove...
BRYAN SINGER
We've seen better success using firewalls to separate the shop floor from the front office than usin...
BRYAN SINGER
He'd just gotten off the plane and everything. He was a total trooper about it.
BRYAN SINGER
I'm actually part of a number of minorities. I grew up being a horribly awkward kid. A terrible stud...
BRYAN SINGER
Imagine how much capital a country like Argentina might attract - if instead of defaulting seriatim ...
PAUL SINGER
What always frightens people is personal exposure, ... Nothing hits home like pricking yourself with...
BILL SINGER
The next time one of my clients gets named in a regulatory complaint, the resolution should be that ...
BILL SINGER
This is chump change to Merrill. Merrill can be an 800 pound gorilla and demand money and sue, but i...
BILL SINGER
Is it going to stop the practices? By and large, yes. Completely? No, ... The big issue is not what ...
BILL SINGER
The issue is whether the regulatory unit of the New York Stock Exchange will survive. It's not just ...
BILL SINGER
The Congo is very wealthy from oil money but is not paying its debts and at the same time is applyin...
PAUL SINGER
'Inequality' has become the political theme/slogan of our time in both Europe and the U.S., ...
PAUL SINGER
You shouldn't say 'animals' to distinguish between humans and non-humans. We are all ani...
PETER SINGER
The price we are willing to pay for safety cannot be infinite. It is distasteful to put a price on h...
PETER SINGER
Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as m...
PETER SINGER
He compared the intelligence task to solving a jigsaw puzzle, except that you didn’t get the box c...
P.W. SINGER
Of those who die from avoidable, poverty-related causes, nearly 10 million, according to UNICEF, are...
PETER SINGER
If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something...
PETER SINGER
What I think about derivatives is if every institution that owns or trades them is properly margined...
PAUL SINGER
Derivatives trading should be standardized and as much as possible moved to clearinghouses.
PAUL SINGER
Today, if you have an Internet connection, you have at your fingertips an amount of information prev...
PETER SINGER
If extreme poverty is allowed to increase, it will give rise to new problems, including new diseases...
PETER SINGER
To make sustainable progress in reducing extreme poverty will require improvements in both the quant...
PETER SINGER
Successful hedge funds will be entrepreneurial; it is the essence of the craft.
PAUL SINGER
I am not saying that factory farming is the same as the Holocaust or the slave trade, but it's c...
PETER SINGER
Paradoxically, resource-rich developing countries are often worse off than comparable countries that...
PETER SINGER
There's a difference between early and late abortions. If you have a late abortion, where the fe...
PETER SINGER
The force of the bundle is with us. We are the champions of the all you can eat cyber buffet, giving...
ADAM SINGER
The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of co...
PETER SINGER
Behind the GOP's bravado, there are a lot GOP operatives quaking in their boots.
PHIL SINGER
What you could say, and what I do argue in the book, is that he doesn't have as much concern for...
PETER SINGER
Given the revelations that are coming out about Roberts from these documents, it does beg the questi...
PHIL SINGER
Open government is, within limits, an ideal that we all share. U.S. President Barack Obama endorsed ...
PETER SINGER
Many European countries, as well as Australia, Canada, Israel, and New Zealand, have adopted legisla...
PETER SINGER
More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency.
PETER SINGER
I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethic...
PETER SINGER
[Since finishing his acclaimed debut documentary] Dark Days, ... about a group of guys who are the b...
MARC SINGER
'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'
PAUL SINGER
If you go back in time you'll find tribes that were essentially only concerned with their own tr...
PETER SINGER
This is the starting shot for an online land rush across Europe. We welcome this first step towards ...
ADAM SINGER
There is no doubt that there is a huge difference between human and nonhuman animals. But what we ar...
PETER SINGER
This kind of visit is oversold; you would not have a shift in the public opinion. It's a one day sto...
PETER SINGER
Britain has to decide whether it's trying to influence the individual or influence the environment t...
PETER SINGER
the traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, tec...
PETER SINGER
It's not going to be the individual ... technical (public health) decisions that are going to hold o...
PETER SINGER
It's true that monetary policy was too lax for too long, and the government encouraged lending t...
PAUL SINGER
If we use goods made from raw materials that are obtained from a poor country without the proceeds b...
PETER SINGER
Kubrick showed us something special. Every film was a challenge, and a direct assault on cinema'...
BRYAN SINGER
In an ideal world, the amount of money we spend on medical research to prevent or cure a disease wou...
PETER SINGER
I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pret...
PETER SINGER
When diamonds' role in fuelling violent conflict in Africa gained worldwide attention, the diamo...
PETER SINGER
All I say about severely disabled babies is that when a life is so miserable it is not worth living,...
PETER SINGER
If governments did not mislead their citizens so often, there would be less need for secrecy, and if...
PETER SINGER
Creating a regulatory system that reflects the modern-day realities of financial markets is not as d...
PAUL SINGER
The Orderly Liquidation Authority prescribed by Dodd-Frank should be repealed and replaced by an ame...
PAUL SINGER
In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a maj...
PETER SINGER
Of those who die from avoidable, poverty-related causes, nearly 10 million, according to UNICEF, are...
PETER SINGER
I believe that in this new world that we live in, we often have a responsibility, you know, to actua...
PETER SINGER
Hebrew word for "charity" tzedakah, simply means "justice" and as this suggests, for Jews, giving to...
PETER SINGER
Harrods' selection of Sun's Java Integration Suite is a testament to the depth and breadth of its ca...
LARRY SINGER
Considering the great job Senator Bingaman has done for New Mexico, it comes as no surprise that Eli...
PHIL SINGER
He took a Madame X silhouette and did something new with it. There were lots of pieces that can be w...
SALLY SINGER
If you came and you found a strange man... teaching your kids to punch each other, or trying to sell...
JEROME SINGER
All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals...
PETER SINGER
An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a b...
PETER SINGER
The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.
PETER SINGER
A shared set of ethical values is the glue that can hold us together during an intense crisis. A key...
PETER SINGER
It's going to be a shared set of values, a shared ethical framework that's going to be the glue that...
PETER SINGER