Quotes About Ethics

I shouldn't have named the chimps. It wasn't scientific. I didn't know. I knew nothing. And worse sin of all was that I was ascribing to them emotions like happiness, sadness and so forth.

If the Wise be the happy man... he must be virtuous too; for, without virtue, happiness cannot be. This then is the true scope of all academical emulation.

Tom Giaquinto, Be A Good Human

Tom Giaquinto, Be A Good Human

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.

If access to health care is considered a human right, who is considered human enough to have that right?

Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.

It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts.

We will stand up for what is right, for what is fair and what is just. Health care is a right and not a privilege.

I grew up in cattle country-that's why I became a vegetarian. Meat stinks, for the animals, the environment, and your health.

How can you eat anything with eyes?

Virtue is the health of the soul.

The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.

Some services are too important to leave to the marketplace.

I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live, I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species.

If I have a right to a job, education, health care or a house, then I must be able to specify the person or persons who owe me any or all of these things.

Respecting and honoring the pigness of the pig is a foundation for societal health.

Medication without explanation is obscene.

Much more wretched than lackof health inthe body, it is to dwell with a soul that is not healthy, but corrupt.

An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia.

Cutting meat out of your diet is the best thing you can do for animals and your own health.

For me, it always has to be about health. That's why I'm a vegan. Well, I don't even do that for my health entirely, I do it for animals.

There are really exercises in a kind of consumerist ethic that I think don't have the same moral weight as medicine or health.