Quotes About Ethics

There is nothing more 'elitist' than thinking our palate pleasure can ever justify a second of suffering or a single death. Please go vegan.

I have come to think that capital punishment should be abolished.

If I am part of a group of 100 people, do 99 people have the right to sentence me to death, just because they are majority?

Chastity prays for me, piety sings, Innocence sweetens my last black breath, Modesty hides my thighs in her wings, And all the deadly virtues plague my death!

I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.

If a cricketer suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, are you going to ban cricket bats?

This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.

It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it.

In the interests of economy they condemned hundreds of children to death and I call it murder.

Our bodies are perishable, wealth is not at all permanent and death is always nearby. Therefore we must immediately engage in acts of merit.

People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.

May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.

I am working on a book urging the beating to death of baby whales using the dead bodies of baby seals.

What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing!

It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.

There slowly grew up in me an unshakable conviction that we have no right to inflict suffering and death on another living creature, unless there is some unavoidable necessity for it.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

The death penalty experiment has failed.

Mercy often inflicts death.

Death, like virtue, has its degrees.

Do not expect good from another's death.

I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.

These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual.