Quotes About Ethics

When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.

Q: Do you really distance yourself from your subject? I mean, what would you do if you were presented with a young girl burning to death? A: About 1/60 at f5.6.

When there is not enough to eat, people starve to death. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill.

I had concluded when I was the prosecutor that I would vote against the death penalty if I were in the legislature but that I could ask for it when I was satisfied as to guilt.

Do they deserve to die?" but "Do we deserve to kill them?

I think more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It's ludicrous. It's not as bad as mass animal death in a factory.

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.

We have rejected such spectacles as the Coliseum. How then, when we do not even look on killing lest we should contract guilt and pollution, can we put people to death?

I don't want a moratorium on the death penalty. I want the abolition of it. I can't understand why a country [USA] that's so committed to human rights doesn't find the death penalty an obscenity.

Buy a steak for a player on another club after the game, but don't even speak to him on the field. Get out there and beat them to death.

Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case; animals have the right to a merciful death.

I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race.

Definitely you don't become famous by doing something bad; that's a professional death sentence.

I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.

I'm for the death penalty, I'm pro-abortion, I'm pro-assisted suicide, I'm pro-regular suicide. Anything that'll get the traffic moving.

It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.

To bring into the world an unwanted human being is as antisocial an act as murder.

People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world!

Whatever we have done with our lives makes us what we are when we die. And everything, absolutely everything, counts.

From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.