Quotes About Morality

Islamic law is clearly against terrorism, against any kind of deliberate killing of civilians or similar 'collateral damage.'

Historically, terrorism falls in a category different from crimes that concern a criminal court judge.

One might have thought the world would stop ascribing moral equivalence between acts of terrorism and acts of punishing terrorism. It has not happened that way.

Can a nation use the methods of terrorism? Can it harm innocent civilians in the process? What are the costs? Where is the line?

People call him a terrorist, but you can use language to do many things and say many things about people, but John Brown was a hero.

There is no difference, where aims are concerned, between a terrorist with a gun and bomb in his hand and a terrorist who has dollars, euros, and interest rates.

My view of Magneto is that he's the terrorist who might someday evolve into a statesman.

Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.

From a moral point of view, there is no excuse for terrorist acts, regardless of the motive or the situation under which they are carried out.

A terrorist for one man could be a patriot for another.

Many Indians and Israelis seem set to elect, with untroubled consciences, those who speak the language of torturers and terrorists. More disturbingly, these corrupted democracies may increasingly prove the norm rather than the exception.

If we have to do enhanced interrogation on terrorists, then I can live with that.

At the end, the key thing is you've got to live with yourself. That's the real test. Everything else is fleeting.

Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.

What would I have done if I'd been put to the test? Would I have risked my own life for people I hardly knew? Probably, I would have looked the other way at best or become another apologist for evil at worst.

The only animals that we test on are the two of us and our kids.

I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing, mass murder, adultery. The children of God are running amok, wayward. Maybe that's why they're so relatable.

In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude.

I think that ultimately the Christian vision of sexuality - the New Testament vision - is not compatible with same-sex marriage. And I don't see a way to change that without entering into a kind of deception, basically.

Being, in the testimony it gives of itself, informs us not only about what it is but also about what we owe it.

Animal testing is needless, especially in cosmetics.

As far as he could tell, he'd stopped one small bunch of bad guys killing a big bunch of bad guys and as a result the good guys got chucked out of their homes by another bunch of bad guys. Did that make him good or bad? James only knew that thinking about it gave him a headache.

Robert Muchamore

Have you ever killed anyone?' Ryan asked bluntly. Clark broke into a big smile and shook his head. 'Hagar wouldn't approve.' 'Why not?' Ryan asked. 'You ever seen a dead man paying a bill?