Quotes About Morality

It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.

There slowly grew up in me an unshakable conviction that we have no right to inflict suffering and death on another living creature, unless there is some unavoidable necessity for it.

The death penalty experiment has failed.

Mercy often inflicts death.

Do not expect good from another's death.

Are you the sum total of your worst acts?

I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.

My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims.

These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual.

The plain fact is that we are starving people, not deliberately in the sense that we want them to die, but wilfully in the sense that we prefer their death to our own inconvenience.

I agree with Thomas Jefferson, who once wrote that he would support the death penalty only when the infallibility of human judgment had been demonstrated.

If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner.

I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.

We need to acknowledge that the death penalty is broken beyond repair.

First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.

The real question is, do you root for the fox in that song? Or are you horrified that the goose and the duck are being dragged off to their death, which is described in detail?

I advocate the use of force to rescue Terri Schiavo from being starved to death. I further advocate the killing of anyone who interferes with such rescue.

I wanted to look at how people deal with death. Why is Henry Kissinger not in jail and Charles Manson is?

...eating animals involves an intentional decision to participate in the suffering and death of nonhumans where there is no plausible moral justification.

The death penalty doesn't need your assent to continue ... it needs your indifference.

The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.

I support the death penalty and will continue to do that.

Death is never sweet, not even if it is suffered for the highest ideal.

Not death itself, but only the moral preparation for it, holds terrors.