Quotes About Morality

At times, when everything is good, you enjoy your peak, but you are sometimes not able to differentiate between right and wrong - everything seems to be good even if you know it's bad. So this is what I have learnt.

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.

It's a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your peers going off to fight in that war.

Believing in the sanctity of life also shouldn't expose anyone to discrimination or penalties for declining to support abortion.

I believe that the death penalty is an effective penalty.

I believe in the death penalty.

We as Americans believe it's OK to kill people. We believe it's OK to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9/11. We think it's OK to invade a country where we think Osama Bin Laden is and he's in the other country. So we just go in and we just kill. And we have the death penalty; we sanction it.

Those who support the death penalty are accepting a practice that is both ineffective and fundamentally flawed.

We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?

The death penalty system is fundamentally flawed - it is inequitable, ineffective, and it has no place in this Commonwealth or this country.

I am pro-death penalty, but not an enthusiastic death-penalty person. I think there's a place for it, that it should serve as a deterrent.

I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty.

I would say, people use labels all the time, but I'm kind of a traditional Catholic: Personally, I'm opposed to abortion, and personally, I'm opposed to the death penalty.

I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.

I am against the death penalty.

I was badly mauled by people in New York State for being against the death penalty for 12 years.

My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.

Any effort to make the death penalty speedier and less costly - more 'efficient' - will inevitably make it less just.

I don't believe in death penalty even though my background is soldiering.

There is no place for the death penalty in a just, humane society.

I don't want boys to use their pencils for improper writing.

The death penalty confronts us with a penetrating moral question: Can even the monstrous crimes of those who are condemned to death and are truly guilty of such crimes erase their sacred dignity as human beings and their intrinsic right to life?

I grew up thinking that it was immoral to idealize the past because, in the past, there was slavery and no penicillin.

I always find it offensive when people say God showers riches on you if you're good.