Quotes About Ethics

A bullet's velocity in low temperatures greatly depends on its target's virtues

Whether you call someone a hero or a monster is all relative to where the focus of your consciousness may be.

Vegetarianism is the first turning away from life, because life lives on lives. Vegetarians are just eating something that can't run away.

Every act has both good and evil results. Every act in life yields pairs of opposites in its results. The best we can do is lean toward the light, toward the harmonious relationships that come from compassion with suffering, from understanding the other person.

Our time has changed, and it's changed and changed, and it continues to change so fast, that what was proper fifty years ago is not proper today. So the virtues of the past are the vices of today, and many of what were thought to be the vices of the past are the necessities of today. And the moral order has to catch up with the moral necessities of actual life in time, here and now, and that's what it's not doing, and that's why it's ridiculous to go back to the old-time religion.

In bounded communities, aggression is projected outward. For example, the ten commandments say, "Thou shalt not kill." Then the next chapter says, "Go into Canaan and kill everybody in it." That is a bounded field. The myths of participation and love pertain only to the in-group, and the out-group is totally other.

No moral system can rest solely on authority.

Vengeance is not justice." The man's voice was grim. "It is in my book." ~ The Perfect Kill

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us.

No man was worth dying over. But she was beginning to think some just might be worth killing over.

I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.

I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.

Rolf Harris is a hard man to hate, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try

Of the tens of thousands of words spoken during the Nuremberg Nazi trial, the word eugenics was said only once.

The desire to engineer humanity is a sign of a mind warped by megalomania and lust for power.

The right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness begins with life, and life begins at conception.

Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions.

Those British generals who prolonged the slaughter kept their posts and won promotion; any who protested ran the risk of dismissal. By

Obscenity is a function of culture - a function in the mathematical sense, I mean, its value changing with that of the variables on which it depends.

an intellectual betrayed his mission if he was not the most constant defender of civilization and freedom of thought

It must be pleasant to be occasionally guilty of a small abomination.

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.