“There can be no brotherhood when some nations indulge in previously unheard of luxuries, while others struggle to stave off famine.”

—  Peter Singer

Source: The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress (1981), Chapter 4, Reason, p. 119

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