Quotes about Ethics

We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always rip to do right.

Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the wellbeing of a person or animal is at stake.

To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.

Man-made laws assure justice, but a higher law produces love. No code of conduct ever persuaded a father to love his children or a husband to show affection to his wife. The law court may force him to provide bread for the family, but it cannot make him provide the bread of love.

Constructive ends can never give absolute moral justification to destructive means, because in the final analysis the end is preexistent in the means.

One of the first principles of nonviolence is a willingness to be the recipient of violence, while never inflicting violence on another.

it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

As T. S. Eliot has said: "The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.

Never, never be afraid to do what is right. Society's punishments are small compare to the wounds we inflict on our souls when we look away

Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the wellbeing of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then have discovered our souls and become worthier of sharing this planet with them.