Quotes about Ethics
They delighted in destroying the life of animals; and the use of flesh for food rendered them still more cruel and bloodthirsty, until they came to regard human life with astonishing indifference.
— Ellen White
Reasons for Discarding Flesh Foods Those who eat flesh are but eating grains and vegetables at second hand; for the animal receives from these things the nutrition that produces growth. The life that was in the grains and vegetables passes into the eater. We receive it by eating the flesh of the animal. How much better to get it direct, by eating the food that God provided for our use!
— Ellen White
it is good for a man to do right, and to leave happiness to take care of itself...
— Ellen Glasgow
When my friend Matilda lay dying of Lou Gehrig's disease, she said that she had been prepared all of her life to choose between good and evil. What no one had prepared her for, she lamented, was to choose between the good, the better, and the best—and yet this capacity turned out to be the one she most needed as she watched the sands of her life run out.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God. In the words of Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mohandas, "People of the Book risk putting the book above people.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
The basic principle is to do no harm. Beyond that, you are free to do quite a lot of things for a living, but they are not all going to come with their own evident purposes. Supplying that purpose is going to be up to you.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Supreme Court justice Potter Stewart once said he could not define pornography, but he knew it when he saw it. Reverence is a little like that. It is difficult to define, but you know it when you feel it.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
— Barbara Kingsolver
In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
— Barbara Kingsolver
It's what you do that makes your soul.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.
— Publilius Syrus