Quotes About Ethics

Animals, or at least those who are conscious and capable of suffering or enjoying their lives, are not things for us to use in whatever way we find convenient.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

Fur is not luxury: it is an industry of death and suffering.

What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of you think it is? Say so right now. Well, then, what are we doing here?

It is no longer acceptable to ignore the suffering, and designers must take responsibility for the way that their fur is produced.

For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history.

If we misuse the gift of sexuality, we're going to suffer the consequences, and I firmly believe we are suffering the consequences.

How can you regret helping a suffering patient?

In most of the world, it is accepted that if animals are to be killed for food, they should be killed without suffering.

Fear and pain and suffering is not OK for any being to feel intentionally at the hands of us.

Hamas, they are using civilians' lives, they are using children, they are using the suffering of people every day to achieve their goals. And this is what I hate.

I think I get angry when people cause serious suffering or don't alleviate suffering when they could.

Whether or not one has won the Nobel Prize, each of us living in contact with our fellowmen feels a joint responsibility for all forms of suffering, both physical and moral.

In my heart, I know that Jesus would never condone the suffering that results when dogs and cats are allowed to breed.

Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.

If an artist is driven primarily by social responsibility, I think the art probably suffers because, again, just as leadership has a rather defined end point or purpose, social responsibility would seem to have a very clear moral context.

Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient - philanthropic prudence is also needed.

The truth, of course, is that the only necessary and sufficient condition for human beings to murder one another is the simple fact of being human.

If we are able to allow people to earn a decent rate of return, with sufficient scale, we can all do well by doing good.

We have to ask ourselves, 'What kind of world is it where a baby-food executive substitutes artificial flavoring and sugar for apple juice? What kind of businesses have we created when we even lie to infants?'

No, the Pirate Bay is more like sugar - it's bad for you but you can't stop using it. Bad because you get sued for it.

I think that, as a show creator, you have to be very careful about what messages you're putting out into the world. That is a not always popular thing to suggest, because it feels very Tipper Gore-y, perhaps.

It would be a most despicable thing to suggest I would exploit the poor for my own personal gain.