Quotes About Ethics

Diplomats lie with a heavy sense of destiny.

Beautiful it is, and a gleam from the same eternal pole-star visible amid the destinies of men, that all talent, all intellect, is in the first plane moral. What a world were this otherwise!

Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.

Rational conduct on the basis of the idea of calling, was born... from the spirit of Christian asceticism.

I can't think of anything better in the world to be but a vegan.

Eating a vegetarian diet can contribute more to saving ourselves and the planet than any other single effort.

My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.

We are the living graves of murdered beasts.

Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that

What every human being should do is eat a vegetarian diet based on whole foods. Period.

When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises.

All animals, including humans, have a right to lives of dignity and respect, without forced intrusions.

Win with grace, lose with dignity!

Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it.

A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity.

When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.

I won't live to see the death-with-dignity movement reach critical mass, but I call on you to carry it forward.

There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.

That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.

Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.

Want keeps pace with dignity. Destitute of the lawful means of supporting his rank, his dignity presents a motive for malversation, and his power furnishes the means.

To have no loyalty is to have no dignity, and in the end, no manhood.

If there were no hell, we would be like the animals. No hell, no dignity.

Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity.