Quotes about Ethics
We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?
- George Bernard Shaw
If I have to choose between peace and righteousness, I'll choose righteousness.
- Theodore Roosevelt
In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign... Secondly, a just cause... Thirdly... a rightful intention.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
You've just got to do what you think is right, and just make the decisions based upon noble causes. And a noble cause is peace and security and freedom.
- George W. Bush
By nature's law, man is at peace with man till some aggression is committed, which, by the same law, authorizes one to destroy another as his enemy.
- Thomas Jefferson
A president must make decisions based upon principle and stand by the principles by which he makes decisions in order to achieve peace.
- George W. Bush
It doesn't matter if an animal can reason. It matters only that it is capable of suffering and that is why I consider it my neighbor.
- Albert Schweitzer
In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice.
- CS Lewis
Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.
- Peter Kreeft
We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.
- CS Lewis
Philosophy is the sum total of all that you know and what you decide is valuable.
- Jim Rohn
Let that ethical philosophy therefore of free-will be far from a Christian mind.
- John Calvin