Moral Response Quotes

They are nonhuman persons. They are not food. If animals matter morally at all, there is one and only one rational response: go vegan. Everything else is just participation in animal exploitation.

Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.

When confronted with political evil, we are better off responding to the ‘political’ rather than the ‘evil’.

It seems to me that responsiveness is a better source for understanding what moral claims are and how they work upon us.

In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.

It's not right to respond to terrorism by terrorizing other people. And furthermore, it's not going to help. Then you might say, "Yes, it's terrorizing people, but it's worth doing because it will end terrorism." But how much common sense does it take to know that you cannot end terrorism by indiscriminately dropping bombs?