Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life - it is bad to damage and destroy life.

It is not enough merely to exist. It's not enough to say, 'I'm earning enough to support my family. I do my work well. I'm a good father, husband, churchgoer.'…

Let no one regard as light the burden of his responsibility. While so much ill-treatment of animals goes on, while the moans of thirsty animals in railway truc…

It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that truly makes him a man. Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man himself will not find…

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 q…

Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it, from the moral point of view.