Quotes About Ethics

This isn't about fans, greed or money. It's about being morally right or wrong. Nobody is governing the way music gets from artists to fans. It's all running amok.

We've got to protect the music and make sure it never gets exploited.

If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.

Using music to promote hate seems to be the bastardisation of music to me.

If a man is not good, what has he to do with the rules of propriety? If he is not good, what has he to do with music?

An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it.

What can a man do with music who is not benevolent?

I'm against people downloading music.

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

All things are parts of one single system, which is called nature; the individual life is good when it is in harmony with nature.

Take nothing but memories, leave nothing but footprints!

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind.

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering, the animals are our equals.

Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes how people get to be how they are.

But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.

The nature of any human being, certainly anyone on Wall Street, is 'the better deal you give the customer, the worse deal it is for you'.

Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

When man violates man's laws, we send him to jail and point the finger of scorn at him. When he violates nature's laws, we send him to a hospital, give him flowers, and feel sorry for him.

To feel much for others and little for ourselves, that to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection of human nature.

Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.

Nature is cruel but we don't have to be

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy