Quotes About Ethics

Die Pädagogik ist die Kunst, die Menschen sittlich zu machen.

I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?

We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal cutlet may be white; we nail geese to a board and cram them with food because we like the taste of liver disease; we tear birds to pieces to decorate our women's hats; we mutilate domestic animals for no reason at all except to follow an instinctively cruel fashion; and we connive at the most abominable tortures in the hope of discovering some magical cure for our own diseases by them.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error.

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard as ever. I have lived quite long enough and am trying to die; but I simply cannot do it. A single beef-steak would finish me; but I cannot bring myself to swallow it. I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

Morals are a luxury of the rich.

George Bernard Shaw

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

Hell, they says, is paved with good intentions.

PICKERING:Excuse the straight question, Higgins. Are you a man of good character where women are concerned? HIGGINS [moodily]:Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?