Quotes About Ethics

Though I felt uneasy at the thought of writing an instrument of slavery… through weakness I gave way and wrote it; but… said before my master and the Friend that I believed slavekeeping to be a practice inconsistent with the Christian religion. This, in some degree, abated my uneasiness; yet… I should have been clearer if I had desired to be excused from it, as a thing against my conscience.

Odd, don't you think? We could drown a litter of kittens that is no sort of threat to us – but these creatures we shall carefully rear.

Babies, in a world that already has far too many, remain desirable.

A world where a man is able to hunt his fellow man! How could he be called a man?

It is not at all pleasant to kill a living thing, but if we pretend that we can continue life without killing we would be nothing but hypocrites.

Immature men make decisions based on how they feel. Mature men make decisions based on what is right.

The way adults could talk themselves into and out of feeling okay about something always amazed her.

I do not understand how it is that financial institutions could think that they could take taxpayer money and then turn around and act like it's business as usual. I don't understand how they can't see that the world has changed in a fundamental way, that it is not business as usual when you take taxpayer dollars.

These trials aren't about revenge. They're about justice. Don't you want justice , Rose Justice?

If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve the man but deteriorate the cat—" Now

Maybe he was annoyed by the criticism he got for the scene in Grizzly Man during which he listens to Timothy Treadwell's death over headphones: Why should he get to hear it and we don't? There was no need—the coroner had already given a play-by-play account. The voyeurs still wanted more. They wanted to hear raw mortality.

Love that can't trump intellectual integrity isn't worth the name.

If you want to test cosmetics, why do it on some poor animal who hasn't done anything? They should use prisoners who have been convicted of murder or rape instead. So, rather than seeing if perfume irritates a bunny rabbit's eyes, they should throw it in Charles Manson's eyes and ask him if it hurts.

Faith is part of who I am, yes. I was raised Christian Scientist. The most important thing I saw every single week on the wall at Sunday school was the Golden Rule.

True beauty is about who you are as a human being, your principles, your moral compass.

Honestly, I would eat cardboard rather than go back to eating animals.

If you want to test cosmetics, why do it on some poor animal who hasn't done anything? They should use prisoners who have been convicted of murder or rape instead. So, rather than seeing if perfume irritates a bunny rabbit's eyes, they should throw it in Charles Manson's eyes and ask him if it hurts.

True beauty is not related to what color your hair is or what color your eyes are. True beauty is about who you are as a human being, your principles, your moral compass.

Do things that make you happy within the confines of the legal system.

Principle, right, honesty, should ever be cherished.

As we deal with our fellow men in petty dishonesty or in more daring fraud, so will we deal with God.

Your wrong habits of eating have so educated your moral powers that you have not the spirit of a Christian. Your temper is perverse, and your treatment of dumb [voiceless] animals is wrong." ~ Ellen G. White, Manuscript Releases Vol. 3, p. 306

We have plenty of good things to satisfy hunger without bringing corpses upon our table to compose our bill of fare.

Animals are becoming more and more diseased, and it will not be long until animal food will be discarded by many besides Seventh-day Adventists.