John Zimmerman Quotes

What we do to animals, we do to ourselves.

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.

They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something.

I never hurt anybody in this business, ever.

It doesn't make you a monster to want, she said, her voice very gentle. It's what you do with it that matters.

Earnest in practicing the ordinary virtues, and careful in speaking about them, if, in his practice, he has anything defective, the superior man dares not but exert himself; and if, in his words, he has any excess, he dares not allow himself such license.

A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.

People have a right to ask questions and dig deep when you're hurting people and things around you.

You can have the most wonderful motives for what you do, but if what you do harms other people, you're fooling yourself.

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

I haven't changed a bit. I go out with my mates, but I probably have to watch what I do a little more.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

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.

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.

Fear and pain and suffering is not OK for any being to feel intentionally at the hands of us.

Immoral is choosing not to act when you hold in your hands the power to create perfection.

There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.

The more freedom you give people to do good, the more freedom they have to do bad as well.