Quotes About Ethics

The plain fact is that we are starving people, not deliberately in the sense that we want them to die, but wilfully in the sense that we prefer their death to our own inconvenience.

I agree with Thomas Jefferson, who once wrote that he would support the death penalty only when the infallibility of human judgment had been demonstrated.

If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner.

I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.

We need to acknowledge that the death penalty is broken beyond repair.

First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.

A great doctor kills more people than a great general.

The real question is, do you root for the fox in that song? Or are you horrified that the goose and the duck are being dragged off to their death, which is described in detail?

I advocate the use of force to rescue Terri Schiavo from being starved to death. I further advocate the killing of anyone who interferes with such rescue.

I wanted to look at how people deal with death. Why is Henry Kissinger not in jail and Charles Manson is?

...eating animals involves an intentional decision to participate in the suffering and death of nonhumans where there is no plausible moral justification.

The death penalty doesn't need your assent to continue ... it needs your indifference.

Do-gooding is like treating hemophilia - the real cure is to let hemophiliacs bleed to death...before they breed more hemophiliacs.

The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.

I support the death penalty and will continue to do that.

Death is never sweet, not even if it is suffered for the highest ideal.

Tip to all British tabloids: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone. I repeat: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone.

You may have a wen or a cancer upon your person and not be able to cut it out lest you bleed to death; but surely it is no way tocure it, to engraft it and spread it over your whole body.

But what he no longer had was a conscience he could live with.

mi a helyes, mi az épelméj?, és ki vagyok én, hogy azt állíthassam, valaha is eleget tudtam ahhoz, hogy a helyeset lépjem?

Neither a philo- nor an anti-Semite be; / And it must follow, as the night the day, / Thou canst not then be false to any man.

Había dos clases de hombres fuertes: los que eran como tío Monty y Abr Steinhem. , despiadados en su afán de ganar dinero, y los que eran como mi padre, implacablemente obedientes a su idea del juego limpio.

You can't expose that breast on the street. You can't have a breast exposed in the middle of Manhattan at twelve-fifteen at 116th Street and Broadway.

I don't believe lies are something to stand on. I believe lies are something to build on.