Quotes About Ethics

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.

Once that living love is destroyed by contraception, abortion follows very easily.

Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune.

The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.

Justice is what love looks like in public.

My reason for becoming a vegetarian was simple: I loved (and love) animals

Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.

You have to love animals for what they are or leave them alone. The best thing you can do if you love them is leave them alone and see that other people do too.

I love animals and feel very strongly that people should not be allowed to buy a pet if they are not able to look after it.

The more a human being in his worldview approaches the goal, the hegemony of love in a moral universe, the more has he become slipshod in the light of intellectual honesty.

It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.

The world we live in will be either better or worse depending on whether we become better or worse.

Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God.

I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect.

Veganism is not a limitation in any way; it's an expansion of your love, your commitment to nonviolence, and your belief in justice for all.

The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

Beneficence is a duty; and he who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized comes, at length, really to love him to whom he has done good.

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

There is no brotherhood between love and dignity, Nor can they share the same abode.

There are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone's heart.

All's fair in love, war and ride-sharing.

Love is the most ethically consistent experience, because selfishness and altruism no longer seem opposed or in conflict.

I say I don't believe in love, but that's not really true - love is just the name of an emotion. It's like on steroids. It's lust with ethics.