“All ethical people strive to choose "right" over "easy" when confronted by situations that force them to choose one or the other.” PeopleForceEasySituationEthicsStriveEthical Book:Ethical Ambition Source: Ethical Ambition
“Power tends to confuse itself with virtue, and a great nation is peculiarly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's favor.” IdeasNationsVirtueEthicsFavorsSusceptibleGreat Nations Book:The Arrogance of Power Source: The Arrogance of Power
“How can we expect young people to be rooted in things such as character, morality and honesty? How is one supposed to be at once an arrow soaring skyward and an oak planted firmly in the ground? The meritocratic culture hones strivers on every aspect of their lives save one - how to cultivate character.” PeopleCharacterYoungCultureHonestyMoralityEthicsAspectSupposed To BeRootedSoarArrowsOaksStrivers Author:David Brooks
“When you approach a problem, strip yourself of preconceived opinions and prejudice, assemble and learn the facts of the situation, make the decision which seems to you to be the most honest, and then stick to it.” FactsProblemSeemsDecisionSituationOpinionHonestApproachEthicsPrejudiceSticks Author:Chester Bowles
“There is pleasure in the pathless woods.” NatureNaturalPleasureWoodsFarewellMother EarthRaptureEarth And NatureI Am LonelyDeep SeaNature Lover Author:Lord Byron
“They have no consciousness therefore. Therefore what? Therefore we are free to use them for our own ends? Therefore we are free to kill them? Why? What is so special about the form of consciousness we recognize that makes killing a bearer of it a crime while killing an animal goes unpunished?...all this discussion of consciousness and whether animals have it is just a smokescreen. At bottom we protect our own kind. Thumbs up to human babies, thumbs down to veal calves.” HumansKindEndsUseFormAnimalConsciousnessSpecialCrimeBabyProtectEthicsKillingBottomDiscussionThumbsCalvesAnimal EthicsThumbs UpThumbs Down Author:J. M. Coetzee
“If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the nature of the being, the principle of equality requires that its suffering be counted equally with the like suffering - insofar as rough comparisons can be made - of any other being. So the limit of sentience is the only defensible boundary of concern for the interests of others. To mark this boundary by some other characteristic like intelligence or rationality would be to mark it in an arbitrary manner. Why not choose some other characteristic, like skin color?” IfsMadeMatterWould BeSufferingInterestAnimalMoralPrinciplesColorLimitsEthicsConcernSkinsMarkNo Matter WhatBoundariesCharacteristicsConsiderationComparisonRoughWhy NotJustificationRationalityArbitrarySkin ColorAnimal Ethics Author:Peter Singer
“When man learns to respect even the smallest being of creation...nobody has to teach him to love his fellow man. Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.” MenMayCharacterAnimalCompassionTeachCreationGoodnessEthicsFellowsConnectedGood ManSmallestFellow ManAnimal CompassionAnimal Ethics Author:Albert Schweitzer
“Pain is pain, and the importance of preventing unnecessary pain and suffering does not diminish because the being that suffers is not a member of our own species.” DoePainSufferingAnimalMembersEthicsImportanceSpeciesUnnecessaryDiminishPreventingPain And SufferingAnimal Ethics Author:Peter Singer
“I must say...that more unmanly, brutal treatment of a little pony it was never my painful lot to witness; and by giving way to such passion, you injure your own character as much, nay more, than you injure your horse, and remember, we shall all have to be judged according to our works, whether they be towards man or towards beast.” MenWayGivingLittlesCharacterRememberPassionAnimalEthicsHorsePainfulWitnessBeastPetTreatmentJudgedBrutalPoniesAnimal EthicsGiving Way Author:Anna Sewell