logo

Quotes About Ethics

I am in no way supportive of hunting for trophies or sport - would never do it and don't like it that others do. But if you kill it, then eat it, it's fine.
~ Anthony Bourdain
I don't want to be invited to the family hunting party.
~ Barack Obama
I don't oppose hunting in any way, shape or form. If that's what you enjoy doing, you are free to do it.
~ Jesse Ventura
There was never any question about the morality of hunting, but neither was there any acceptance of killing for the sake of a trophy.
~ Jimmy Carter
It's rarely talked about, but hunting for sport is just about as vile as we humans get.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Hunting will never feed lots of people; it will always be a hobby.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
People who've never gone hunting have a tendency to look down on hunters and act like they're out killing Bambi's father.
~ Patty Hearst
"That's sad," said Montag, quietly, "because all we put into it is hunting and finding and killing. What a shame if that's all it can ever know."
~ Ray Bradbury
Hunting, works for conservation like slavery works for economic growth. A guaranteed but morally awful way to achieve a goal.
~ Peter Allison
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
~ James A. Baldwin
Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Everyone is entitled to commit murder in the imagination once in a while, not to mention lesser infractions.
~ Thomas Nagel
From eating meat arrogance is born, from arrogance erroneous imaginations issue, and from imagination is born greed; and for this reason refrain from eating meat.
~ Gautama Buddha
There's no such thing as business ethics; there's just ethics. And ethics makes no concessions for the real or imagined necessities of making a profit.
~ Michael Josephson
Vegetarianism is an act of the imagination. It reflects an ability to imagine alternatives to the texts of meat.
~ Carol J. Adams
It is more important to let a child's imagination develop than it is to labor to inculcate in him or her some correct ethical point of view.
~ Padraic Colum
War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
~ Bill Moyers
Let none count themselves wise who have not with the nerves of their imagination felt the pain of the vivisected.
~ John Cowper Powys
The imagination is a wonderful thing; it allows for all manner of undiscoverable sins.
~ Sarah Strohmeyer
Even if everyone elseIs not doing good,I alone will.Even if everyone elseis doing wrong,I alone will not.
~ Gautama Buddha
Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.
~ Mark Twain
Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.
~ Chinua Achebe
Liberty can no more exist without virtue and independence than the body can live and move without a soul.
~ John Adams
Eminent nutritionists have traded their independence for the food industry's favors.
~ Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal