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There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

Elie Wiesel

Stichwörter: ethics activism justice philosophy

Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Albert Schweitzer

Stichwörter: compassion vegetarianism ethics peace

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their free choice, — is often the means of their regeneration. A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever-renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.

John Stuart Mill

Stichwörter: motivational inspirational injustice morality ethics justice war fight foreign-policy patriotic safety selfish tyranny will

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

Albert Schweitzer

Stichwörter: vegetarianism ethics suffering

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Stichwörter: vegetarianism food ethics animal-cruelty diet ethical slaughterhouse vegan veganism vegetarian

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?

George Bernard Shaw

Stichwörter: vegetarianism ethics

The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.

Albert Schweitzer

Stichwörter: ethics

... luckily, Eden is soon populated. The ethical dimension begins when the other appears on the scene.

Umberto Eco

Stichwörter: ethics