“Ethics is inescapable.”

Epilogue, p. 235 http://books.google.com/books?id=jHuYuLugqBAC&amp;q=%22The+ethic+of+Reverence+for+Life+is+the+ethic+of+Love+widened+into+universality%22&amp;pg=PA235#v=onepage <br class="br">Out of My Life and Thought : An Autobiography (1933)

Source: Man’s Search for Himself (1953), p. 150
Context: Man is the "ethical animal" — ethical in potentiality even if, unfortunately, not in actuality. His capacity for ethical judgment — like freedom, reason and the other unique characteristics of the human being — is based upon his consciousness of himself.

Source: Break-Out from the Crystal Palace (1974), p. 38

In &quot;Staff members&#x27; personal donations for giving season 2016&quot; https://blog.givewell.org/2016/12/09/staff-members-personal-donations-giving-season-2016/, December 2016 <br class="br">Context: Regarding (b) [&quot;checking boxes I want to check for considering myself a personally moral/ethical person, which is related but not identical to trying for maximum expected positive impact on the world&quot;]: every year, I want to give a significant amount to &quot;charity&quot; as conventionally construed, straightforwardly helping the less fortunate. I generally believe in trying to be an ethical person by a wide variety of different ethical standards (not all of which are consequentialist). And I wouldn&#x27;t feel that I were meeting this standard if I were giving nothing (or a trivial amount) to known, outstanding opportunities to help the less fortunate, for purposes of saving as much money as possible for adversarial projects (such as political campaigns) and/or more speculative projects (such as work related to artificial intelligence). I think the best giving opportunities in this category are GiveWell&#x27;s top charities, so I will be giving a portion of this year&#x27;s donation there, following the recommended allocation.

We have no ethical relation to the clod, the molecule, or the scale sloughed off from our skin on the back of our hand, because the clod, the molecule, and the scale have no feeling, no soul, no anything rendering them capable of being affected by us [...] The fact that a thing is an organism, that it has organisation, has in itself no more ethical significance than the fact that it has symmetry, or redness, or weight.
Source: The New Ethics (1907), The Survival of the Strenuous, p. 169

Kulturphilosophie (1923), Vol. 2 : Civilization and Ethics
Context: I must interpret the life about me as I interpret the life that is my own. My life is full of meaning to me. The life around me must be full of significance to itself. If I am to expect others to respect my life, then I must respect the other life I see, however strange it may be to mine. And not only other human life, but all kinds of life: life above mine, if there be such life; life below mine, as I know it to exist. Ethics in our Western world has hitherto been largely limited to the relations of man to man. But that is a limited ethics. We need a boundless ethics which will include the animals also.

Agnelli: The Rules of the Game, Vanity Fair (1991)

Journal entry (24 July 1916), p. 77e
1910s, Notebooks 1914-1916