ethics Quotes

“We need a boundless ethics which will include animals also.”

“The great fault of all ethics hitherto has been that they believed themselves to have to deal only with the relations of man to man. In reality, however, the question is what is his attitude to the world and all... ...

“By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.”

“We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government. 'Am I my brother's keeper?' Most certainly I am! I cannot escape my responsibility by saying the State will do all that is necessary. It is a tragedy... ...

“Where principles and heart stand in conflict with each other, let us make the law of the spirit free from the law of principles.”

“The quiet conscience is the invention of the devil. No one of us may permit any preventable pain to be inflicted even though the responsibility for that pain is not ours. No one may shut his eyes and think that... ...

“Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.”

“Does my behavior in respect of love affect nothing? That is because there is not enough love in me.”

“There slowly grew up in me an unshakable conviction that we have no right to inflict suffering and death on another living creature, unless there is some unavoidable necessity for it.”

“To the truly ethical man, all of life is sacred, including forms of life that from the human point of view may seem lower than ours.”