Quotes About Morality

No conditions justify torture.

President Obama was right to ban torture, but the public must understand that this decision carries a potential cost in lost information. That's what makes it a moral choice.

If you back out of a convention... you can't dodge your obligation. Torture is still not acceptable.

My feminism does not demand that a woman have an equal opportunity to torture, alongside men. Torture is no less wrong because a woman, not a man, carries it out.

I'm against torture. I'm also against terrorism.

I know waterboarding is torture because I have been on the giving and receiving end of the practice.

Tory supporters are not spontaneously ashamed; they have been made to feel ashamed. British leftists fiercely believe they are right - in the sense of correct but also in the sense of just. Conservatives likewise believe they are right-as-in-correct. Yet Tories are less confident about whether their politics are right-as-in-just.

I go to movies with my children and see fat kids burping, parents portrayed as total morons, and kids being mean and materialistic, and I feel it's really slim pickin's out there. There's a little dribble of a moral tacked on, but the story is not about that.

I would describe myself as a 'total conservative, a conscientious one.'

I'm totally against the death penalty - which, if anyone has a right to support, I do - because I do not see it as a deterrent to crime.

I totally reject and have rejected throughout my entire career the proposition that the end justifies the means or that a judge should decide cases based on a desire to reach a certain outcome.

I don't follow all the 48 laws. Like, I've never crushed anyone totally.

Not only is fur cruel, it's also totally gross. I mean, who wants to wear the skin of an abused animal? Not me!

Our best theories of people, presented on their own terms and without reference to underlying particles and forces, leave plenty of room for human choice.

NIETZSCHE IS DEAD—GOD.

There's only one God—everything else is metaphor.' Now, strip away all the metaphors, and what is the one single commandment common to every decent religion ever known?" "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." "Exactly. Every religion in human history has had a variation of it, but why do so few people live by it? Because of all the other crap, because of the metaphors.

when the ethics of your profession conflict with your ethics as a human being, well, then there's just something wrong with your profession

I don't believe in God because there is one, I believe in God because there should be.

There are no good guys in this game. There's only bad guys, and less bad guys.

The whole point of Christianity is that everyone in the world, from Charles Manson to Mother Teresa, deserves to go to hell.

We're constantly confronted with the lazy, the apathetic, the immoral, the indifferent, the irresponsible, and the disconnected—the signs of a decaying culture.

What can I tell you further? I once lived among humankind, and found them in their generality to be cruel and cold, and yet could mention the names of three or four that were like angels. I suppose we measure the importance of our days by those few angels we spy among us, and yet aren't like them.

Morality has its own civil wars, with its own victims in its own time and place.

We may be black-hearted men when our turn comes but there is a seam in men called justice that nothing burns off complete. Caught-His-Horse-First