Quotes About Ethics

To have control of my own mind... to go with dignity is less terryfying. When I look at both options I have to die, I feel this is far more humane.

I believe this choice is ethical, and what makes it ethical is it is a choice.

It is acceptable to bring someone to tears if it explains to them in an emotional way why a product, a service, or a candidate is the right person, is the right thing to do.

The need here is professional closeness tempered by emotional distance.

We're not that far from being able to plant images, memories, and emotional states directly into the brain.

As an animal lover and as a sometime-meat-eater, I've read so much about the emotional sophistication of pigs and cows and sheep that I do think twice when I do still eat them on occasion.

We must strive to become good ancestors.

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops.

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

If we go on using the Earth uncaringly and without replenishing it, then we are just greedy consumers.

What we do flows from who we are.

There is no doubt that we live in an age of unprecedented, and sometimes terrifying, technological advance where the speed of advance so often outstrips the necessary ethical considerations.

The ecological crisis is a moral issue.

I am unapologetic about asking people to connect up their own responsibility for their total environmental footprint and how they decide to procreate and how many children they think are appropriate.

Premium will increasingly be defined in terms of sustainability and environmental compatibility

We must develop a better sense of responsibilty towards our total environment

Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can't persist much longer. If it does, then we won't.

The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state.

The "hole in the moral ozone" is really what's behind the hole in the ozone.

We should bring in an environmental attitude, and I think luxury should automatically be about sustainability and quality.

While an ethic of justice proceeds from the premise of equality—that everyone should be treated the same—an ethic of care rests on the premise of nonviolence—that no one should be hurt.

No man is above the law, and no man is below it.

Law and justice are not always the same.