Quotes About Ethics

The public hardly suspects that their purchase of cosmetics, pet food, toothpaste, eggs and other common items have, in all likelihood, caused some form of animal suffering.

I don't use the word 'pet.' I think it's speciest language. I prefer 'companion animal.' We would no longer allow... pet shops... Eventually companion animals would be phased out.

One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals.

I've never been in trouble. I've never had detention or anything. I wasn't a teacher's pet though either.

It has become my mission to stop the insanity of wild cats as pets.

Animals were my pets, and the thought of eating my pets freaked me out.

I don't believe in pets. I like animals to be wild and free.

It's always weird to eat something that is a pet elsewhere.

You cannot be buried in obscurity: you are exposed upon a grand theater to the view of the world. If your actions are upright and benevolent, be assured they will augment your power and happiness.

It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.

I'm just a man, no more or no less. Bad as the worst, good as the best.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

If honesty were suddenly introduced into American life, the whole system would collapse.

For others, in spite of myself, from myself.

If you want to know where you would have stood on slavery before the Civil War, don't look at where you stand on slavery today. Look at where you stand on animal rights.

Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.

One has to reap the fruits of his karma. The law of karma is inevitable and is accepted by all the great philosophies of the world: 'As you sow, so shall you reap.'

Philosophers should be, as Seneca put it, 'lawyers for humanity'. Make what you think and feel count; the examined life has global dimensions.

Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.

Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want.

In the future, fast-fashion retailers might change their philosophy toward real efforts to create a world of their own. One can only hope.

I think that the basic philosophy was very good. It was just be nice to each other, and don't step on other people's toes and infringe on their freedom.

Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life.

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.