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Quotes About Ethics

No country can find eternal peace and comfort where the vote of Judas Iscariot is as good as the vote of the Saviour of mankind.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Unless man has the wit and the grit to build his civilization on something better than material power, it is surely idle to talk of plans for a stable peace.
~ Francis Bowes Sayre, Sr.
A president must make decisions based upon principle and stand by the principles by which he makes decisions in order to achieve peace.
~ George W. Bush
Everything you do in war is a crime in peace
~ Helen McCloy
The peace of the man who has foresworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace but a canting impotence.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If peace cannot be maintained with honor it is no longer peace.
~ Lord Russell
Satisfaction is ending each day knowing you were kind, honest and treated people well.
~ Karon Waddell
Do not gossip about monks and speak ill of spiritual teachers
~ Radhe Maa
When you're silent, your silence condones it. Thus, whatever you believe in goes down the drain.
~ Jennifer Tindugan-Adoviso
If you can cull an animal, or kill a human, and sleep well, does not mean you are any more well than a sick animal.
~ Fakeer Ishavardas
True peace required the presence of justice, not just the absence of conflict.
~ N.K. Jemisin, The Killing Moon
Intruding upon a dimension rightfully ours, modern medicine robs us of the dignity of what people in the past regarded as most precious: that final moment of death.
~ Shinmon Aoki
Selfish act is very tempting but it leaves a permanent dent on your character.
~ Saru Singhal, Rousing Cadence
If I'm going to be staying up until 3 A.M., it should be for world peace and not shampoo sales.
~ Mona Sutphen
America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don't misuse a household pet.
~ Dick Gregory
No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink.
~ Murray Banks
Pet ownership is slavery. Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or be entertained by.
~ Ingrid Newkirk
Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation.
~ Ingrid Newkirk
In the end, I think it would be lovely if we stopped this whole notion of pets altogether.
~ Ingrid Newkirk
Men will be just to men when they are kind to animals.
~ Henry Bergh
In a perfect world, we would not keep animals for our benefit, including pets.
~ Tom Regan
Teach your children how to behave with animals. Adopt a pet. Don't go buy one. Please. That's a sin. Let's get these puppy mills out of business.
~ Shelley Morrison
It doesn't matter if an animal can reason. It matters only that it is capable of suffering and that is why I consider it my neighbor.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Once the computers got control, we might never get it back. We would survive at their sufferance. If we're lucky, they might decide to keep us as pets.
~ Marvin Minsky