Quotes About Ethics

War with vices, but peace with individuals.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion.

The more red meat and blood we eat, the more bloodthirsty we get, the more violent we get. The more vegetarian food we eat, the more peace is taken into us.

All sentient beings should have at least one right—the right not to be treated as property

Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.

it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings.

Never to wrong others takes one a long way towards peace of mind.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone.

When we do what is right, we have contentment, peace and happiness.

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man.

Justice of right is always to take precedence over might.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace.

As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism.

Only the winners decide what were war crimes.

I value peace, too, when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.

There are no right answers to wrong questions.

Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

Being vegan provides us with the peace of knowing that we are no longer participants in the hideous violence that is animal exploitation.

Welfare reforms and the whole "happy" exploitation movement are not "baby steps." They are big steps–in a seriously backward direction.

We cannot justify treating any sentient nonhuman as our property, as a resource, as a thing that we an use and kill for our purposes.