Quotes About Morality

An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation.

When there is not enough to eat, people starve to death. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill.

I had concluded when I was the prosecutor that I would vote against the death penalty if I were in the legislature but that I could ask for it when I was satisfied as to guilt.

Do they deserve to die?" but "Do we deserve to kill them?

I think more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

We have rejected such spectacles as the Coliseum. How then, when we do not even look on killing lest we should contract guilt and pollution, can we put people to death?

I don't want a moratorium on the death penalty. I want the abolition of it. I can't understand why a country [USA] that's so committed to human rights doesn't find the death penalty an obscenity.

I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race.

Definitely you don't become famous by doing something bad; that's a professional death sentence.

It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.

From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

There is nothing more 'elitist' than thinking our palate pleasure can ever justify a second of suffering or a single death. Please go vegan.

I have come to think that capital punishment should be abolished.

Chastity prays for me, piety sings, Innocence sweetens my last black breath, Modesty hides my thighs in her wings, And all the deadly virtues plague my death!

I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.

This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.

It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it.

Our bodies are perishable, wealth is not at all permanent and death is always nearby. Therefore we must immediately engage in acts of merit.

Everyone dies. It is how one lives that matters.

Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion.

People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.

I am working on a book urging the beating to death of baby whales using the dead bodies of baby seals.

What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing!