Quotes About Ethics

I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me.

Our economic approach to food and its distribution reflects our basic moral values.

I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.

A knight whose heart is set upon the Way, but who is ashamed of wearing shabby clothes and eating coarse food, is not worth calling into counsel.

In these days when we feed those who are not hungry, we are stealing from those who are starving, even though the food is our own.

I would not rob you of your food or your clothes or your umbrella, but if I caught your German out I would take it. But I don't study any more,- I have given it up.

I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.

The production of fuel from basic food commodities is, in fact, unjustifiable.

I plan to write more songs of my own, especially on behalf of the animals we needlessly raise for food, at their great expense, and at great expense to our precious, deteriorating planet.

Veganism is simply letting compassion guide our choice of food. As such, it is a basic Buddhist practice that ought to be expected of everyone who takes refuge vows.

Should a small business or a large business be able to pollute the water or the air or the food? No, I hope you don't believe that.

When human body itself is made of flesh, where is the need to consume the flesh of birds and animals? You should partake of only sacred food. Only then you will have sacred feelings.

Where your food comes from is as important as how you smoke it.

I have the privilege to make ethical choices through my food each day. It's beyond nourishment to me. Each meal represents a lifestyle I passionately believe in.

The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.

It would be great if all the fast-food outlets, slaughterhouses, these laboratories and the banks who fund them exploded tomorrow.

You should ask where your food is coming from.

My take is that the optimal approach to food, for health and ethical reasons, may be vegetarianism.

Forgiveness is the highest and most difficult of all moral lessons.

Forgiveness does not replace justice.

It does not matter whether you are a theist or atheist, what matters is sincerity, forgiveness, and compassion.

Forgiveness is not a matter of who is right or wrong. It is a matter of doing the right thing.

A wise judge may let mercy temper justice but may not let mercy undo it.