Quotes About Morality

When you have multiple patients on life support, you don't pull the plug on one just to save another.

There are people who try to justify eating fish by saying they have no feelings. Well, you watch a fish gasping for breath as it's pulled out of the water, and then try and tell me it has no feelings!

I think you go into a debate trying to be fair minded and trying to be balanced but occasionally there will be a sense where it feels like the moral imperative is pulling you one direction or another.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this.

Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished.

I don't agree with capital punishment as it is now, because too often mistakes are made. But I think that if you eliminate the mistakes, then there are times when it is justified.

Capital punishment is an appropriate punishment for rape.

To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.

Evil gains work their punishment.

But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder.

He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.

Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.

Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.

I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment.

My father gave me Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment' when I was in junior high; my junior high, angst-filled soul responded to that.

I'm always theoretically opposed to capital punishment as a matter of policy; like, I don't believe a state should put its citizens to death.

I wanted to say I don't agree with capital punishment.

The best crime stories are always about the crime and its consequences - you know, 'Crime And Punishment' is the classic. Where you have the crime, and its consequences are the story, but considering the crime and the consequences makes you think about the society in which the crime takes place, if you see what I mean.

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

Would any one believe that I am master of slaves by my own purchase? I am drawn along by the general inconvenience of living without them.

Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.

Power is not alluring to pure minds.