Animals don't have anyone to protect them. If we don't stand up, the people who are harming animals will never get stopped.
We have to stop harming children in child care. I'm trying to make us stop. I wouldn't know what to do otherwise.
If we ourselves want to be free and happy then by enslaving and harming animals we will not be able to achieve our goal.
A flame may love a snowflake, but they can never be together without each harming the other.
Try to find the path of least resistance and use it without harming others. Live with integrity and morality, not only with people but with all beings.
If you kill me, you kill yourself. " [. . . ] He only wanted to convey to Janegg the truth of ahimsa, which is that all beings were connected to each other in the deepest way and thus it was impossible to harm another without harming oneself.
You are worth more than harming yourself
If we can refrain from harming others in our actions & words, we can start to give serious attention to actively doing good.
I hope to bring much more attention to important issues and change for issues and practices that are harming animals.
Now here's somebody who wants to smoke a marijuana cigarette. If he's caught, he goes to jail. Now is that moral? Is that proper? I think it's absolutely disgraceful that our government, supposed to be our government, should be in the position of converting people who are not harming others into criminals, of destroying their lives, putting them in jail. That's the issue to me. The economic issue comes in only for explaining why it has those effects. But the economic reasons are not the reasons.
A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.
One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
General Napoleon says that 'Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. ' Well, I suggest doing the opposite: Interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. Don't be opportunist; don't benefit from the weakness of your enemy! Be just even to your enemy! Try to find a way to defeat him without harming him; prove to be as intelligent as to find such a way! Only then, your victory will be meaningful and honourable!
Strive for a life well lived. Each one with their own aims, preferences, and meaning. Always, of course, without harming other persons or preventing others from being able to form a good life for themselves.
The Nuffield report suggests that there is a moral imperative for investment into GM crop research in developing countries. But the moral imperative is in fact the opposite. The policy of drawing of funds away from low-cost sustainable agriculture research, towards hi-tech, exclusive, expensive and unsafe technology is itself ethically questionable. There is a strong moral argument that the funding of GM technology in agriculture is harming the long-term sustainability of agriculture in the developing world.
I guess I'm drawn to religion because I can be provocative without harming something people really care about, like their cars.
How much energy they put into harming each other. How little into saving.
If for harming himself a man forfeits his freedom, then he was never free in the first place.
The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
