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.

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

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

True Scouts are the best friends of animals, for from living in the woods and wilds, and practising observation and tracking, they get to know more than other people about the ways and habits of birds and animals, and therefore they understand them and are more in sympathy with them.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

Some animals utter a loud cry. Some are silent, and others have a voice, which in some cases may be expressed by a word; in others, it cannot. There are also noisy animals and silent animals, musical and unmusical kinds, but they are mostly noisy about the breeding season.

I’ll never tell a lie. I’ll never make a misleading statement. I’ll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I’ll never avoid a controversial issue.

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

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

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

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.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

I would never do a commercial if I thought it was offensive to anyone.

No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

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

I don’t have to see a murder in order to condemn murder.

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

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

I always love going on a safari drive whenever I visit Ulusaba Private Game Reserve in South Africa. I’ve been fortunate to see so many incredible animals over the years, and each time, it’s completely different. Following Ulusaba’s pack of wild dogs is my highlight.

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of life on Earth: single-celled life, multicelled life, differentiation into plants and animals, movement of animals from water to land, and the advent of mammals and consciousness.

After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

There’s strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour’s buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.

Why can’t I just eat my waffle?

So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

Acorns were good until bread was found.

Not a lot of people or pros in this game know how to train correctly. That’s why they don’t have a long career. Their body gets banged up. They get into a rhythm of heavy sparring and heavy work, but through that, they’re limiting movement.

I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

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

I hid myself in food.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

I’m certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes.

I was brought up to understand Darwin’s theory of evolution. I spent hours and hours in the Natural History Museum in London looking at the descriptions of how different kinds of animals had evolved, looking at the sequence of fossil bones looking gradually more and more and more and more like the modern fossil.

Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.