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.

States should have the right to enact laws… particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?

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

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

You’d have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I’d probably want to die in San Sebastian.

I care not much for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

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

I’m a fry lover.

The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

The word ‚good‘ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

I don’t use Twitter for bad.

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren’t supposed to make money!

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.

For many people who are so lost in their minds, so much involved in their thought processes, the only moments they have when they are not trapped in that is when they are relating to their animal, their pet.

What nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast?

I’ll bring my grits when I travel, because I get so hungry on the road.

If we could establish a deep abiding relationship with nature, we would never kill an animal for our appetite; we would never harm, vivisect, a monkey, a dog, a guinea pig for our benefit. We would find other ways to heal our wounds, heal our bodies.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

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.

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

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

Abortion isn’t a lesser evil, it’s a crime. Taking one life to save another, that’s what the Mafia does. It’s a crime. It’s an absolute evil.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.

I’m skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.

The violence in the Bible is appalling.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

Of two evils, choose neither.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

Ordinary morality is innate in my view.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

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.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

We’re one of the only animals in the world that don’t really think of ourselves as animals, but we are animals, and we must respect our fellow animals.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

I’m very type-A, and many things in my life are about control and domination, but eating should be a submissive experience, where you let down your guard and enjoy the ride.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.

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.

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

I just know what is right and I want to do what is right.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

Ice-cream is exquisite – what a pity it isn’t illegal.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.