Quotes About Ethics

The opposite of spiritual is not material but egotistical.

You are what you eat" is a truism hard to argue with, and yet it is, as a visit to a feedlot suggests, incomplete, for you are what you eat eats, too. And what we are, or have become, is not just meat but number 2 corn and oil.

The new plants are novel enough to be patented, yet not so novel as to warrant a label telling us what it is we're eating. It would seem they are chimeras: "revolutionary" in the patent office and on the farm, "nothing new" in the supermarket and the environment.

he once punished his own foot for squashing a worm by throwing away its shoe.

To eat with a fuller consciousness of all that is at stake might sound like a burden, but in practice few things in life can afford quite as much satisfaction.

It seemed to me not too much to ask of a meat eater, . . that at least once in his life he take some direct responsibility for the killing on which his meat-eating depends.

You can't regulate integrity

If the environmental crisis is ultimately a crisis of character, as Wendell Berry told us way back in the 1970's, then sooner or later it will have to be addressed at that level- at home, as it were. In our yards and kitchens and minds.

If we're only going to eat the prime cuts of young animals, we're going to have to raise & kill a great many more of them. And indeed, this has become the rule with disastrous results for both the animals & the land... If we are going to eat animals, it behooves us to waste as few and as little as we possibly can. Something that the humble cook-pot allows us to do.

I don't work with crazies anymore

You have just dined," Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote, "and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity." The

All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.

Professionalism in law has brought us the O.J. Simpson case in lieu of justice.

Being booked for simulation is never good.

I think we do good things and bad things, sometimes simultaneously - or they may be the same thing.

It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

It is a sin to be poor.

There's no such thing as an original sin.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Sin is geographical.

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.

As pro-life advocates continue to expose the scientific and ethical reality of abortion, we must also console the millions of Americans who carry the heavy burden of an enormous sin.

Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.

It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.