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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d7ddd9f | A majority of people in these surveys also said that America gives too much aid--but when they were asked how much America should give, the median answers ranged from 5 percent to 10 percent of government spending. In other words, people wanted foreign aid 'cut' to an amount five to ten times greater than the United States actually gives! | ethics foreign-aid moral-philosophy poverty | Peter Singer | |
| 862627b | If doing the most you can for others means that you are also flourishing, then that is the best possible outcome for everyone. | Peter Singer | ||
| 40cccdb | One might also ask why we should develop energy-intensive robots to work in one of the few areas--care for children or elderly people--in which people with little education can find employment. | Peter Singer | ||
| c3f30d5 | If you are paying for something to drink when safe drinking water comes out of the tap, you have money to spend on things you don't really need. | Peter Singer | ||
| 62d01cd | If it is so easy to help people in real need through no fault of their own, and yet we fail to do so, aren't we doing something wrong? At a minimum, I hope this book will persuade you that there is something deeply askew with our widely accepted views about what it is to live a good life. | Peter Singer | ||
| a78e42f | The world would be a much simpler place if one could bring about social change merely by making a logically consistent moral argument. | Peter Singer | ||
| ba21859 | Thomas Aquinas, the great medieval scholar whose ideas became the semi-official philosophy of the Roman Catholic church, wrote that whatever we have in "superabundance"--that is, above and beyond what will reasonably satisfy our own needs and those of our family, for the present and the foreseeable future--"is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance." | Peter Singer | ||
| 29bafe2 | Christian magazine Sojourners, likes to point out that the Bible contains more than three thousand references to alleviating poverty--enough reason, he thinks, for making this a central moral issue for Christians. | Peter Singer | ||
| bf6db77 | Racists violate the principle of equality by giving greater weight to the interests of members of their own race when there is a clash between their interests and the interests of those of another race. Sexists violate the principle of equality by favoring the interests of their own sex. Similarly, speciesists allow the interests of their own species to override the greater interests of members of other species. The pattern is identical in .. | Peter Singer | ||
| 4acfd87 | An area of land used for crops will feed about ten times as many people as the same area of land used for grass-fed beef. | ethics morality philosophy veganism | Peter Singer | |
| 8b6996b | Terrorism has made our world an integrated community in a new and frightening way. Not merely the activities of our neighbors, but those of the inhabitants of the most remote mountain valleys of the farthest-flung countries of our planet, have become our business. We need to extend the reach of the criminal law there and to have the means to bring terrorists to justice without declaring war on an entire country in order to do it. For this w.. | philosophy political-philosophy politics | Peter Singer | |
| bceb061 | The big corporations and those who must compete with them are not concerned with a sense of harmony among plants, animals, and nature. | Peter Singer | ||
| 8d88ef9 | Unless you can refute the central argument of this book, you should now recognize that speciesism is wrong, and this means that, if you take morality seriously, you should try to eliminate speciesist practices from your own life, and oppose them elsewhere. Otherwise no basis remains from which you can, without hypocrisy, criticize racism or sexism. | Peter Singer | ||
| bc447e8 | If 10 percent of the population were to take a consciously ethical outlook on life and act accordingly, the resulting change would be more significant than any change of government, | ethics kindness moral-philosophy morality | Peter Singer | |
| cf57761 | moral relativism, a position many find attractive only until they are faced with someone who is doing something really, really wrong. | moral-philosophy philosophy | Peter Singer | |
| 2d19551 | If we could see our lives objectively, we could see that they are not something we should inflict on anyone. | Peter Singer | ||
| 7ecb803 | There is a new wave of interest in exploring how to frame choices so that people make better decisions. Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, professors of economics and law, respectively, teamed up to write Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, which advocates using defaults to nudge us to make better choices.9 Even when we are choosing in our own interests, we often choose unwisely. When employees have the option of .. | Peter Singer | ||
| af2c3a2 | Since 1988, Iran has had a government-funded, regulated system for purchasing kidneys. | Peter Singer | ||
| bde9e3a | While it is absurd to blame Marx for something he did not foresee and certainly would have condemned if he had foreseen it, the distanced between Marx's predicted communist society and the form taken by 'communism' in the twentieth century may in the end be traceable to Marx's misconception of the flexibility of human nature. | Peter Singer | ||
| c09d753 | We need to get over our reluctance to speak openly about the good we do. Silent giving will not change a culture that deems it sensible to spend all your money on yourself and your family, rather than to help those in greater need--even though helping others is likely to bring more fulfillment in the long run. | Peter Singer | ||
| 0c5f291 | He says the best way out is always through And I agree to that, or in so far As I can see no way out but through. --ROBERT FROST | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 6040da1 | Let others slap each others on the back while you're back in the lab or the gym or pounding the pavement. | work | Ryan Holiday | |
| db23f2d | From sacrifice comes meaning. From struggle comes purpose. If you're to create something powerful and important, you must at the very least be driven by an equally powerful inner force. If | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 66844fa | You must be able to explicitly say who you are building your thing for. You must know what you are aiming for--you'll miss otherwise. You need to know this so you can make the decisions that go into properly positioning the project for them. You | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 455b346 | If you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what's next. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| d9761d6 | The worst is yet to come. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| f3db24d | No marketer is ever going to push something with the stink of reasonableness, complexity, or mixed emotions. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 226abd7 | Media was once about protecting a name; on the web it is about building one. | media online-news pr public-relations | Ryan Holiday | |
| 6efb73a | For any project, you must know what you are doing--and what you are not doing. You must also know who you are doing it for--and who you are not doing it for--to be able to say: THIS and for THESE PEOPLE. In | Ryan Holiday | ||
| faab17c | What thrives online is not the writing that reflects anything close to the reality in which you and I live. Nor does it allow for the kind of change that will create the world we wish to live in. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| b97339a | I was there to deface billboards, specifically billboards I had designed and paid for. Not that I'd expected to do anything like this, but there I was, doing it. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| a11a992 | In under two weeks, and with no budget, thousands of college students protested the movie on their campuses nationwide, angry citizens vandalized our billboards in multiple neighborhoods, FoxNews.com ran a front-page story about the backlash, Page Six of the New York Post made their first of many mentions of Tucker, and the Chicago Transit Authority banned and stripped the movie's advertisements from their buses. To cap it all off, two diff.. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 17957f5 | In the pay-per-pageview model, every post is a conflict of interest. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| e13e729 | coding and technical chops are now an essential part of being a great marketer. Growth hackers are a hybrid of marketer and coder... | startups | Ryan Holiday | |
| 5507905 | According to the story, "the most powerful predictor of virality is how much anger an article evokes" [emphasis mine]. I will say it again: The most powerful predictor of what spreads online is anger." -- | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 7990023 | Things must be negative but not too negative. Hopelessness, despair--these drive us to do nothing. Pity, empathy--those drive us to do something, like get up from our computers to act. But anger, fear, excitement, or laughter--these drive us to spread. They drive us to do something that makes us feel as if we are doing something, when in reality we are only contributing to what is probably a superficial and utterly meaningless conversation. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| c7906e8 | Real strength lies in the control or, as Nassim Taleb put it, the domestication of one's emotions, not in pretending they don't exist. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| c1b313e | Is there a chance? Do I have a shot? Is there something I can do? | Ryan Holiday | ||
| c10486e | The end goal of every growth hacker is to build a self-perpetuating marketing machine that reaches millions by itself. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 90c0f5c | Desperation, despair, fear, powerlessness--these reactions are functions of our perceptions. You must realize: Nothing makes us feel this way; we choose to give in to such feelings. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| c125d56 | The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way. In | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 350d918 | While you're sleeping, traveling, attending meetings, or messing around online, the same thing is happening to you. You're going soft. You're not aggressive enough. You're not pressing ahead. You've got a million reasons why you can't move at a faster pace. This all makes the obstacles in your life loom very large. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 3bba8e1 | Each project matters, and the only degrading part is giving less than one is capable of giving. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 5f780b3 | Our actions may be impeded ... but there can be no impeding our intentions or dispositions. Because we can accommodate and adapt. The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting. | Ryan Holiday |