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Quotations about ethics

Martin Luther KingNever, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being 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.

 - Martin Luther King

Tags:   animals  ethics  morality  punishment  

Mahatma GandhiThe greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

 - Mahatma Gandhi

Tags:   animals  ethics  greatness  humane  nation  

Albert EinsteinThe ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.

 - Albert Einstein

Tags:   beauty  comfort  ethics  goodness  truth  

Immanuel KantI am never to act otherwise than so that I could also will that my maxim should become a universal law.

Ich soll niemals anders verfahren, als so, dass ich auch wollen könne, meine Maxime solle ein allgemeines Gesetz werden.

 - Immanuel Kant

Tags:   behavior  ethics  law  

Immanuel KantThere is an imperative which commands a certain conduct immediately, without having as its condition any other purpose to be attained by it. This imperative is Categorical...This imperative may be called that of Morality.

 - Immanuel Kant

Tags:   conduct  ethics  morality  

George OrwellA man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

 - George Orwell

Tags:   animals  ethics  help  life