Quotes About Ethics

When humans act with cruelty we characterize them as "animals", yet the only animal that displays cruelty is humanity.

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

I am certain and have always stressed that the destination of mankind is to become more and more humane. The ideal of humanity has to be revived.

All of humanity is in peril of extinction if each one of us does not dare, now and henceforth, always to tell only the truth, and all the truth, and to do so promptly - right now.

How do you rid the Earth of humans? Rid the humans of their humanity.

The planet should not be used as a warehouse of resources to serve humanity's selfishness

Never have I met a person doing terrible things who would meet my own eyes peacefully. To gaze into another person's face is to do two things: to recognize their humanity, and to assert your own.

What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?

If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Animal protection is education to the humanity.

The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living.

Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere.

Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots

Scholarship that is indifferent to human suffering is immoral.

Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility and advancing our common humanity.

All the good of which humanity is capable is comprised in obedience.

The altruism of foresters can serve as a motto for humanity in general: "We reap what we have not sown. We sow what we do not reap."

The right of an individual to refuse to kill, to torture, or to participate in the preparation for the nuclear destruction of humanity seems to me to be fundamental.

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.

Human reason can excuse any evil.

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

It seems that humanity is incapable of putting a halt to the shedding of innocent blood.

What is virtue? It is to hold yourself to your fullest development as a person and as a responsible member of the human community