Quotes About Ethics

I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.

It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species.

With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.

Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.

We are a dreadful species indeed, and deserve whatever it is our techno-baubles do to us.

There's money to be made by driving a species extinct.

Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions.

We all have that capacity to lose our humanity when circumstances force us to do so. It's not specific to people who live in Africa or Latin America or Asia. And equally, we are capable of regaining ourselves.

It's because I work in ethics, and, more specifically, applied ethics, that I think it's important that if you have things to say that you think are right and you think could make the world a better place, it's important that many people read about them.

I got with PETA for a fur campaign, specifically for fur.

My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings.

I think if you look at the realm we're discussing, which is the political realm, I think it would be impossible to find an action by any politician intended to specifically favor either my firm or myself.

I never aligned myself specifically with the anti-war movement.

If a politician takes a bribe to do what he thinks would have been best for the public anyway, he still goes to jail. If he's president, under a Constitution that refers to impeachment specifically for 'bribery,' as well other 'high crimes and misdemeanors,' he should still be removed.

We want to have a game which is honest, which is dynamic, a nice spectacle so we should try to do everything to help that process.

Spectators often express disfavor of fair decisions.

Most human beings, there's a spectrum of bad behavior.

The papers feed the public interest but then the public interest demands more in the press and speculation can look like fact.

The moment we put an end to speculation in land, we put an end to making money at the expense of our sons and daughters.

Speech is the mirror of action.

He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.

The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?

Indulgence in frivolous speech not only reveals one's lack of moral character, but it deprives him of good qualities also.

In order to exercise the right to freedom of speech conferred by the Constitution, one should fulfill the social responsibility of a Chinese citizen.