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Quotes About Ethics

The way of humanity is to turn everything into a marketable product. But when we turn something into a marketable product it loses something.
~ Frederick Lenz
I have endeavored to show that there is no real service of humanity in the profession of medicine and that it is injurious to mankind.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
...the true greatness of a nation is founded on principles of humanity.
~ Thomas Paine
Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind.
~ Thomas Paine
As Kant says, the contribution of any common laborer would be greater than that of the greatest philosopher unless the philosopher makes some contribution to establishing the rights of humanity.
~ Allen W. Wood
There is no point in being a responsible member of society, nor is there any point in being an irresponsible member of society. Both are very defined descriptions of selfhood
~ Frederick Lenz
The ultimate priority of humanity should not be to savour the power given to us, but rather to account for the according responsibility.
~ Christian Harrison
John Steinbeck, East of Eden
~ Timshel - thou mayest
From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
~ Immanuel Kant
Being happy at others cost...not a sign of humanity.
~ Adil Adam Memon
humans have a global benchmark-standard of conduct that called humanity
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If God grace can only come through slaughtering animals, then their is no need of god.No one is above t humanity.
~ Vikram Singh Slathia
Something is significantly wrong with the creature that sacrifices its children's lives in order to settle its differences.
~ Suzanne Collins
An important function of theology is to keep religion tied to reason and reason to religion. Both roles are of essential importance for humanity.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
~ Anton Chekhov
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
~ Aesop
Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.
~ Oscar Wilde
If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat
~ Steven Wright
Hitler was a vegetarian. Just goes to show, vegetarianism, not always a good thing. Can in some extreme cases lead to genocide.
~ Bill Bailey
If we're not supposed to eat animals, how come they're made out of meat?
~ Tom Snyder
She'd absolutely adored the library_an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't own and feel no remorse about it.
~ Ally Carter, Heist Society
Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.
~ Eric Sevareid
My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way.
~ Al Capone
I have an idea for sweatshops: air conditioning! That's simple. 14 year old boys working twelve hour days? "Yeah, but they're comfortable!"
~ Mitch Hedberg