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Quotes About Ethics

To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.
~ Blaise Pascal
I sincerely believe that if Bush and Cheney recognized the full humanity of other people's mothers around the world, they wouldn't commit the crimes they commit.
~ Wallace Shawn
I think the rapidly growing tendency to regard animals as born for nothing except slavery to so-called humanity absolutely disgusting.
~ Victor Gollancz
Our future on this planet, exposed as it is to nuclear annihilation, depends one one single factor: humanity must make a moral about-face.
~ Pope John Paul II
Of all the black crimes that humanity is committing against the great Creation, vivisection is the blackest.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate.
~ Bertrand Russell
I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it . . .
~ Elie Wiesel
Agrofuel is a crime against humanity and I believe there should be a moratorium put in place until there is some way to eradicate the many problems it creates.
~ Jean Ziegler
The idea of engineering is an idea of mastery. And today the role that we are being asked to play is a role based on informed humanity.
~ Vandana Shiva
Lies are essential to humanity.
~ Marcel Proust
You know what's wrong with humanity?... The greatest gift we were given is our free will, and we keep misusing it.
~ Dean Koontz
Without "ethical culture", there is no salvation for humanity.
~ Albert Einstein
Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter.
~ Russell Baker
One expects decent people to stand up for the good of all. Decent people shut their doors and hide behind them as decent people do. Massacres could never happen if it weren't for decent people.
~ Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution
Act so as to use humanity, yourself and others, always as an end and never as a means to an end.
~ Immanuel Kant
One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.
~ C. S. Lewis
Sacrificing myself to kill Hilary Clinton was the best thing I could possibly do for humanity
~ Jeff Foxworthy
No moral value is greater than humanity.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
There's not really such thing as 'good' or 'bad' people, there's just like…humanity. And it gets broken sometimes.
~ Isaac Marion, The New Hunger
I worry about the Israeli moral standard, Israeli humanity.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
Humanity is to be met with in a den of robbers.
~ William Hazlitt
In this, of all the countries in the world, possession of inordinate wealth by individuals should be held as a crime against Indian humanity.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The humanities of business in this age have become more important than the techniques of business.
~ Harry Amos Bullis
There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.
~ Thomas Paine