Quotes About Morality

If you can cull an animal, or kill a human, and sleep well, does not mean you are any more well than a sick animal.

True peace required the presence of justice, not just the absence of conflict.

God always knows our conscious, if it's bad He will stricken it, if it's good He will keep it clear, if you have no conscious then you're dead to God.

Selfish act is very tempting but it leaves a permanent dent on your character.

America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don't misuse a household pet.

Men will be just to men when they are kind to animals.

In a perfect world, we would not keep animals for our benefit, including pets.

It doesn't matter if an animal can reason. It matters only that it is capable of suffering and that is why I consider it my neighbor.

In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice.

Animals were my pets, and the thought of eating my pets freaked me out.

It's always weird to eat something that is a pet elsewhere.

You cannot be buried in obscurity: you are exposed upon a grand theater to the view of the world. If your actions are upright and benevolent, be assured they will augment your power and happiness.

It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.

I'm just a man, no more or no less. Bad as the worst, good as the best.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

For others, in spite of myself, from myself.

If you want to know where you would have stood on slavery before the Civil War, don't look at where you stand on slavery today. Look at where you stand on animal rights.

Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

One has to reap the fruits of his karma. The law of karma is inevitable and is accepted by all the great philosophies of the world: 'As you sow, so shall you reap.'

Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?

We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.