William Edward Hartpole Lecky Quotes About Duty

• The animal world being altogether external to the scheme of redemption, was regarded as beyond the range of duty, and the belief that we have any kind of obligation to its members has never been inculcated - has never, I believe, been even admitted - by Catholic theologians.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Believe, Animal, Catholic

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1955). “History of European morals from Augustus to Charlemagne”

• El deber moral que cabe esperar en las diferentes épocas no es una unidad de norma, o de actos, sino una unidad de tendencia... En un momento dado, los afectos benevolentes abarcan únicamente a la familia; pronto, el círculo se amplía e incluye primero a una clase, luego a una nación, después a una coalición de naciones, más tarde a toda la humanidad y, finalmente, su influencia se deja sentir en el trato del hombre con el mundo animal.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Men, Animal, Law

• I venture to maintain that there are multitudes to whom the necessity of discharging the duties of a butcher would be so inexpressibly painful and revolting, that if they could obtain a flesh diet on no other condition, they would relinquish it forever.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Vegetarian Diet, Vegetarianism, Forever

• There is no possible line of conduct which has at some time and place been condemned, and which has not at some other time and place been enjoined as a duty.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Perspective, Lines, Duty

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