Quotes about Ethics
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
We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom.
— Francis de Sales
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
— Mahatma Gandhi