Quotes About Ethics

If you buy an SUV, you're buying your safety at the expense of someone else's." ... If you're driving a Hyundai, which basically runs on air and tofu, and you get in an accident with an SUV, are you going to say, "Well, at least I have the courage of my convictions?" Hell, no. You're going to say: "Soon's I get outta this hospital bed and find my legs, I'm gonna get me a Suburban. Loaded.

?yilik eden mükafat bekliyorsa, tefecidir.

I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings.

We know we cannot be kind to animals until we stop exploiting them -- exploiting animals in the name of science, exploiting animals in the name of sport, exploiting animals in the name of fashion, and yes, exploiting animals in the name of food.

Our lives are all that really belong to us, so it is how we use our lives that determines what kind of men we are

I believe in integrity. Dogs have it. Humans are sometimes lacking it.

The murder that is depicted as a horrible crime is repeated in cold blood, remorselessly.

Every punishment which does not arise from absolute necessity, says the great Montesquieu, is tyrannical. A proposition which may be made more general thus: every act of authority of one man over another, for which there is not an absolute necessity, is tyrannical.

Topluma doÄŸrudan zarar veren bir suçun cezas?z kalmas?n?n, gerçekleÅŸmesi olanaks?z bulunan bir suçun ise cezaland?r?lmas?n?n siyasal sak?ncalar? çok önemli ve büyüktür.

Parmi un assurdo che le leggi, che sono l'espressione della pubblica volontà, che detestano e puniscono l'omicidio, ne commettono uno esse medesime, e, per allontanare i cittadini dall'assassinio, ordinino un pubblico assassinio.

C'est le malheur de l'esprit humain que les choses les plus lointaines et les moins importantes, telles que les révolutions des corps célestes, lui soient les plus présentes et les mieux connues, alors que les notions morales, toutes proches et de la plus haute importance, restent toujours flottantes et confuses, au gré du souffle des passions qui les pousse, ou de l'ignorance dirigée qui les reçoit et les transmet.

EÄŸer toplum düzenini ayn? derecede sarsmayan/ihlal etmeyen iki suça ayn? ceza verilirse, insanlar en a??r suçu iÅŸlemekte bir sak?nca görmeyecekler ve bu konuda çok zor bir engelle de kar??laÅŸmayacaklard?r.

Le interessano i libri? - disse Rosetta animandosi. - Legge molto? - Durante la guerra. Non si sapeva cosa fare. Ma non ci riesco mica. Ho sempre l'impressione di mettere il naso negli affari degli altri... Rosetta si divertì e mi guardò. - ...Mi sembra una cosa indecente. Come aprire le lettere degli altri...

The practice of meditation is not so much concerned with the hypothetical attainment of enlightenment, but with leading a good life. In order to learn how to lead a good life, a spotless life, you need continual awareness that relates with life constantly, directly, and very simply.

and your sense of personal authenticity and power should be resolved into virtue.

In fact, there's a lot to legitimately hate about pro sports and the way they are conducted.

La charia des mollahs iraniens ne permet pas l'autopsie du corps d'un musulman, pas même celle du corps d'une pute musulmane -- pour les études de médecine, des corps de non-musulmans sont utilisés.

A life is measured by how it is lived for the sake of heaven.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

One cannot conceive man actually ascribing ethical qualities to his gods before he becomes sufficiently developed to formulate moral rules for his own guidance, and to create moral laws for his fellow man.

What does the delegate propose? To place the vicious vagrant, the wandering Arabs, the Tartar hordes of our large cities on the level with the virtuous and good man?" In

I would rather be ruled by people who think they're going to fry in Hell forever if they rule me poorly, than by people for whom I'm merely a convenient economic siphon who can be milked like a cow.

The choices we make, make us. We