Quotes About Ethics

Courage is doing what is right

Confucius himself has repeatedly taught that external appurtenances are as little a part of propriety as sounds are of music.

the boyish desire of the small Britisher, Tom Brown, "to leave behind him the name of a fellow who never bullied a little boy or turned his back on a big one.

Bu-shi-do means literally Military-Knight-Ways—the ways which fighting nobles should observe in their daily life as well as in their vocation; in a word, the "Precepts of Knighthood," the noblesse oblige of the warrior class.

Donde se ve claro cuánto ayude la ociosidad al vicio, y cuán de provecho sea la ocupación a la virtud.

DE ALGUNAS LEYES QUE LOS INCAS TUVIERON EN SU GOBIERNO Nunca tuvieron pena pecuniaria ni confiscación de bienes, porque decían que castigar en la hacienda y dejar vivos los delincuentes no era desear quitar los malos de la república, sino la hacienda a los malhechores, y dejarlos con más libertad para que hiciesen mayores males.

My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.

One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.

There are two ways to make money in a capitalist, patriarchal setting: 1. Fuck other people over faster and more efficiently than they fuck you over. 2. Whore

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

If we don't do better than those we accuse, we have no right to complain.

Try to live by your own sense of right and wrong. Not in response to someone else's treatment of you.

I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. — Abraham Lincoln

But no histories of Man's goodness have ever been compiled, and no educational curricula that focus on this goodness have

Indeed, the exclusion of Purpose is convenient to the elimination of conscience.

There are things that are more important than life.

Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal.

PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs, teach them to treat a dog or a chicken as if they feel fear and love and pain - as they do - then they will grow up to understand that we are all worthy of respect.

All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless suffering. So if that is true, how can meat be acceptable under any but the most extraordinary circumstances, such as perhaps roasting the bird who died flying into a window?

Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do.

I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.

When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it's nothing but vanity, human vanity.

Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels.