Quotes about Ethics
What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.
- Cicero
Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.
- Margaret Atwood
The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.
- Margaret Mead
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
- Margaret Mead
One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and not be held responsible. [Cultural Factors in the Cause of Pathological Homicide. Bulletin of Menninger Clinic ]
- Margaret Mead
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.
- Albert Einstein
The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.
- Mark Twain
I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.
- George Bernard Shaw
Forgiveness does not replace justice.
- Pope Benedict XVI
Forgiveness is not substitute for justice.
- Pope Benedict XVI
Golf is a game of integrity. And golf is a game of forgiveness. I think the high standards of golf remind people of how lucky they are, or how fortunate they are, to be able to play the game.
- George W. Bush