Quotes About Ethics

Animals are my friends... and I do not eat my friends.

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

Hell is paved with good intention, not with bad ones. All men mean well.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him it's called ferocity.

Pickering: Have you no morals, man?Doolittle: Can't afford them, Governor.

Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth — beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals — would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

The love of money is the root of all virtue.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.

One of the best means for this is the Eightfold Path expounded by the Buddha: 1. Right view 2. Right intention 3. Right speech 4. Right action 5. Right livelihood 6. Right effort 7. Right mindfulness 8. Right meditation

Sincerity - if you can fake that, you've got it made.

Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.