Quotes About Ethics

With me, I'm going to have a label where no one is ever cheated, ever.

There are just as many dirt bags in independent music as there are in major labels.

India does not encourage - India has forbidden - child labour. We are a rule-based and rule-governed country.

Labour is not a commodity.

Abortion is an issue of conscience for the Labour party.

The impression sometimes created among the public is that scientists are working away in their labs, and maybe they're not always thinking about the implications of their work. But we are.

Dishonesty, lack of integrity catches up with you.

The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action.

I've always done what I thought was good if I could live on what they were offering-and sometimes if I couldn't. So even when I was broke, my career didn't lack for interest.

Whatever you think of Facebook, you cannot fault it for lack of ambition.

I say that religion isnt about believing things. Its ethical alchemy. Its about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness.

There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.

Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings.

If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void. (95)

The only way to show a true respect for God is to act morally while ignoring God's existence.

Religion isn't about believing things. It's ethical alchemy. It's about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness.

We were obviously going to have to have a talk about the difference between "maintaining security" and "being a dick.

Especially when it comes to animals used for food, humanity's reasoning power and concern about fairness plummets.

The chicken industry tells the public that economic profitability cannot be achieved without careful attention to the welfare of the chicken, but this is not how the system actually works. Chickens can be profoundly mistreated and still "produce," just as profoundly mistreated humans can be overweight, sexually active, and able to produce offspring. Like humans, chickens can "adapt," up to a point, to living in slum conditions. Is this an argument for slums?

Rendering the slaughter process less inhumane is a possibility. A question is whether "humane slaughter" legislation for poultry will speed or delay the day when regarding a fellow creature as food is no longer an option.

What gives us the right to violate the bodies and minds of other feeling beings? -Henry Spira

You took a seal club and threw it in the water." Watson's response: "Well holy shit. The jerk was about to bash in the brains of a baby seal, for Christ's sake, I was not going to stand there and watch it.

To make a forty-inch fur coat it takes between thirty and two hundred chinchilla, or sixty mink, fifty sables, fifty muskrats, forty-five opossums, forty raccoons, thirty-five rabbits, twenty foxes, twenty otters, eighteen lynx, sixteen coyotes, fifteen beavers, or eight seals.

Fur ranchers choose the cheapest, not the kindest, kill methods, the main concern being the preservation of the whole coat. Many ranchers use anal electrocution, which fries the animal from the inside out, microwave style. At FurIsDead.com there is footage of animals undergoing anal electrocution, including an unsuccessful attempt repeated on the same animal. We also see a farmer who injects insecticide into the chests of minks, who die convulsing in agony over many minutes.