Quotes About Ethics

I treat people the way I want to be treated, which makes me odd.

The rise of capitalist practice and morality brought with it a radical revision of how the commons are treated, and also of how they are conceived.

A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief.

I've always treated women with dignity and respect.

In the end, I think everyone should be treated fairly.

I've always treated money with respect, but I don't really think about money - I try to avoid it, because I don't like what money does to people. I find if you get too much money involved, people get corrupted.

Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat.

Animals used for food are treated like unfeeling machinery.

I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently... This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.

If the practice is torture for the al Qaeda operative who masterminded the killing of three thousand Americans, why weren't there court-martials in the cases of those thousands of servicemen similarly treated as part of their training?

I've always treated women well.

If you're buying animal products and can go to the farm and actually see how the animals are looked after, yes, that's an important point. That's definitely the best way of assuring yourself that the animals are being well treated.

At PETA, we often say that the issue of how animals are treated isn't just about them; it's about us, how we behave.

I don't want any more concentration camps for animals that are cruelly treated, force-fed to fatten themselves up for our consumption.

If you treat animals how you want to be treated, you're a lot better off.

Over 17 years, I took on banks, landlords, real estate firms, local governments, anybody who treated anybody unfairly.

If I really treated business like a businessman, I wouldn't have done what I have done - opposing China. No businessman in their right mind would do this because you know that there will be repercussions.

The Justice Department is staunchly committed to ensuring that all Americans are treated in a fair and just manner.

As a public figure, you deserve to be treated fairly.

I just don't see why people are treated differently or with a different set of rules. It's just wrong.

I have no problem with people eating meat. I would just like it, for the people who do eat meat, for the animals to be treated better. To be treated humanely. Cows in pastures living the life that they're supposed to live. I have no problem with that.

The press are animals, and they need to be treated that way.

I've always believed certain things: You treat everybody nicely because, more than anything, it's the right thing to do. And then you also never know when someone will be in position to help you or hurt you. I know I've gotten help from a lot of people who said good things about me because I treated them well.

Stepping back, just being in my little Stoicism Susan bubble, if what people know you for is bringing light to an issue about bad behavior, about bad stuff going on and laws not being followed and people being treated inappropriately, why wouldn't I want that? That's a badge of honor.