The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. Whe...
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER Life is God's novel. Let him write it.
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man&...
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps yo...
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasur...
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who ...
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER The waste basket is a writer's best friend.
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who...
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER Wann immer ich vom Leben den Status quo erwarte, taucht etwas ganz unerwartetes auf. Die Weltgeschic...
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing...
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just keeps you from ...
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surpr...
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER The waste basket is the writer's best friend.
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shed its blood? How can we...
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's t...
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. Whe...
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thous...
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER You must believe in free will; there is no choice
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it’s dar...
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER We must believe in free will, we have no choice
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER I don't invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions. Just like experts at ...
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER Children don't read to find their identity, to free themselves from guilt, to quench the thirst for ...
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER Take three quarts of duck's milk.
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no ha...
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER The waste basket is the writer's best friend.
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from e...
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is-full of surpris...
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER God sends burdens, and shoulders, too
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and ot...
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER The Jewish people have been in exile for 2,000 years; they have lived in hundreds of countries, spok...
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER The wastebasket is a writer's best friend.
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, ea...
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of non-knowledge
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER Whatever doesn't really happen is dreamed at night. It happens to one if it doesn't happen to anothe...
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER Life is God's novel. Let him write it.
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER Man cannot live without self-control
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER Ich erinnere mich noch an Ihre Worte: „Die Welt ist ein Schlachthaus und ein Bordell.“ Damals sc...
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER Wir laufen davon, und der Berg Sinai läuft hinter uns her. Diese Jagd hat uns krank gemacht.
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER Was die Moralisten das Böse nannten, war in Wirklichkeit die Lebensregel.
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER — Куда ушли все эти годы? Кто будет по мнить их после то...
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER Wie ich höre, zeigt auch der Himmel eine Leidenschaft für das Neue. Ein Stern wird müde, ein Ster...
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER Wir Juden haben die Völker mit einem ewigen Gott belastet, und darum hassen sie uns.
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER Irgendwo war mir ein Rest von Glauben an den freien Willen geblieben, aber an diesem Morgen war ich ...
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER In the half darkness I winked to my other self, my mad dictator, and congratulated him on his droll ...
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER But my gloom did not lessen. I knew that I'd had a bad dream, and I stood in the dark trying to reco...
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life.
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER When the ship approached the equator, I stopped going out on deck in the daytime. The sun burned lik...
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER When a writer tries to explain too much, he's out of time before he begins.
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continui...
ISAAC SINGER 'Superman' has always been about Lois Lane, Superman and Clark Kent and this love triangle b...
BRYAN SINGER The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world.
PETER SINGER The building block of every community is family.
PAUL SINGER Robots already perform many functions, from making cars to defusing bombs - or, more menacingly, fir...
PETER SINGER Dolphins are social mammals, capable of enjoying their lives. They form close bonds with other membe...
PETER SINGER In most countries, it is possible to visit zoos and see bored animals pacing back and forth in cages...
PETER SINGER Can we really believe that we are living a good life, an ethically decent life if we don't do an...
PETER SINGER Without in any way minimising the economic and psychological blow that people experience when they l...
PETER SINGER We may feel the pain of falling back from a level of affluence to which we have grown accustomed, bu...
PETER SINGER To be a utilitarian means that you judge actions as right or wrong in accordance with whether they h...
PETER SINGER I think I get angry when people cause serious suffering or don't alleviate suffering when they c...
PETER SINGER Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and e...
PETER SINGER What we call 'evil' doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by...
BRYAN SINGER Diamonds have an image of purity and light. They are given as a pledge of love and worn as a symbol ...
PETER SINGER My own view is that being a vegetarian or vegan is not an end in itself, but a means towards reducin...
PETER SINGER Google has withdrawn from China, arguing that it is no longer willing to design its search engine to...
PETER SINGER I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethi...
PETER SINGER When you look at food as an ethical issue in the Christian tradition, you don't find very much a...
PETER SINGER I find it extraordinary that anyone would have an intellectual conversion to Roman Catholicism.
PETER SINGER There is no excuse for keeping wild animals in amusement parks or circuses. Until our governments ta...
PETER SINGER It is an attention-getter. I mean, it's hard to ignore a woman lugging a cello around.
LORI SINGER I just don't think that the differences you make by donating to a museum or an art gallery reall...
PETER SINGER Acceptance means events can make it through you without resistance
MICHAEL SINGER They're based on a lot of assumptions, but they're also based on some reality on the ground.
AUDREY SINGER I think people will fight about the numbers. But the message here is clear: that people want to retu...
AUDREY SINGER Looking toward the future, we see a different face of the U.S. population. But I don't think that's ...
AUDREY SINGER There's no doubt that we are at a high in immigration to the United States.
AUDREY SINGER Enforcement levels are up across the border, so it's not as easy to get back and forth.
AUDREY SINGER Paying for it now is going to pay off later.
AUDREY SINGER Take the poultry and meat packing industries. These used to be primarily native-born just 10, 12 yea...
AUDREY SINGER If you're buying animal products and can go to the farm and actually see how the animals are loo...
PETER SINGER Several countries - among them Austria, Costa Rica, Denmark, Finland, India, Israel and Sweden - ban...
PETER SINGER Check out London, Manhattan, Aspen and East Hampton real estate prices, as well as high-end art pric...
PAUL SINGER In the workplace, employees should be judged on their merit and hard work and not on aspects that ar...
PAUL SINGER Of all the arguments against voluntary euthanasia, the most influential is the 'slippery slope&#...
PETER SINGER Every profession will have its rogues, of course, no matter what oaths are sworn, but many health ca...
PETER SINGER It was wrong to capture wild animals and confine them in captivity for people to go and gawk at them...
PETER SINGER Well the real concept of basic needs if you cut it right down are simply the physical needs that are...
PETER SINGER When I was a child, my father used to take me for walks, often along a river or by the sea. We would...
PETER SINGER It is a very bad idea for governments to create arbitrary and unfair outcomes, or outcomes resulting...
PAUL SINGER If you aren't room temperature, your situation can always be improved.
STEVEN SINGER The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to eac...
PETER SINGER 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