Quotes About Morality

Do you know what I think?" Marcone said."You think we should shoot Nicodemus in the back at the first opportunity and let Michael dismember him.""Yes."I drew my gun. "Okay.

Sport hunting is a crime. My sympathies are with the fox.

Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.

We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected.

The definition of obscenity on the newsstands should be extended to many hunting magazines.

Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?

I have no use for people who hunt for what they call sport

I went hunting, I shot a deer, and it mortified me. I just couldn't do it again.

I am sort of anti-hunting. I don't put down what anyone wants to do, but it seems to me that killing a creature for fun is not a progressive idea.

I wouldn't hunt a person down for food. But if he were already dead.

Whether hunting is right or wrong, a spiritual experience, or an outlet for the killer instinct, one thing it is not is a sport.

There is no middle way. We cannot compromise on cruelty.

I am in no way supportive of hunting for trophies or sport - would never do it and don't like it that others do. But if you kill it, then eat it, it's fine.

There was never any question about the morality of hunting, but neither was there any acceptance of killing for the sake of a trophy.

It's rarely talked about, but hunting for sport is just about as vile as we humans get.

Hunting, works for conservation like slavery works for economic growth. A guaranteed but morally awful way to achieve a goal.

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.

Everyone is entitled to commit murder in the imagination once in a while, not to mention lesser infractions.

There's no such thing as business ethics; there's just ethics. And ethics makes no concessions for the real or imagined necessities of making a profit.

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

It is our imagination, not our conscience, which makes us better than the beasts of the field.

When the imagination is continually led to the brink of vice by a system of terror and denunciations, people fling themselves over the precipice from the mere dread of falling.

Even if everyone elseIs not doing good,I alone will.Even if everyone elseis doing wrong,I alone will not.