Of course, animals have to be killed for food or to prevent their doing injury to others or to property. But such killing is too often carried out without regard to the pain inflicted.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.

Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

I think about food literally all day every day. It’s a thing.

The violence in the Bible is appalling.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

I hated the Naked Chef. Fine, yes, he did good things for school food or whatever, but, you know, I don’t want my chefs to be cute and adorable.

A 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.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

I have much more support than most women around this world, and I have the financial means to have a home and help with care and food.

Acorns were good until bread was found.

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

I believe in the Golden Rule – The Man with the Gold… Rules.

I’m crepuscular.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn’t eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Seuss inspired me to try cauliflower!

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

We have food all around us all the time, and if we haven’t eaten for three hours, we think we’re starving. You’re not starving – human beings can go for 30 days without food.

Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

Barbecue may not be the road to world peace, but it’s a start.

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.

Conscience is a man’s compass.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go.

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

I’m evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers.

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

We all have the duty to do good.

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

It is right to give every man his due.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

We do not exploit our dolphins for profit.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.

The Kobe craze really annoyed me. Most of the practitioners had no real understanding of the product and were abusing it and exploiting it in terrible and ridiculous ways. Kobe beef should not be used in a hamburger. It’s completely pointless.

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

I’ve seen a look in dogs‘ eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.

Never order food in excess of your body weight.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.