Quotes about Ethics

Some of the greatest Christians I know are people who don't actually have a kind of faith system that they believe in. But, in their activity, the way they conduct themselves, there's a goodness there.

And my Christianity, first and foremost, governed the way that I tried to deal with people.

I'm not going to get down in the gutter with DeSantis and Trump - there's enough of that going on.

I can't even kill a lobster without saying a Hail Mary for it.

The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard as ever. I have lived quite long enough and am trying to die; but I simply cannot do it. A single beef-steak would finish me; but I cannot bring myself to swallow it. I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

Morals are a luxury of the rich.

I don't want to punish anybody, but there are an extraordinary number of people who I might want to kill.

He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.

It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good.

Loyalty in a critic is corruption.