Michael Flanders Quotes

Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.

Nothing will justify the killing of innocent people.

If two wrongs don't make a right, then what do three wrongs make? What about four?

The killing of innocent people is always wrong.

It is unacceptable, it is forbidden, to harm the innocent.

My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with - crimes does not pay. Of course it pays, you schmuck. That's not why we don't do it. We don't do it because it is wrong.

Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable.

No conditions justify torture.

Enormous slaughter may have been acceptable in previous centuries. It simply isn't acceptable anymore.

It has always worried me that certain men of the Church have not understood that torture is never humane or Christian.

Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.

There is no maxim ... which is more liable to be misapplied ... than the current one that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.

Next to the sin of murder comes the sin of sexual impurity.

Cruelty is not a literary value.

It [abortion] is a crime, an absolute evil.

So?" Bob said. "Hat up, go kill her. Problem solved." "Bob," I said. "You can't just go around killing people." "I know. That's why you should do it." "No, no. I can't go around killing people, either.

Still, it doesn't do to murder people, no matter how offensive they may be.

Cruelty might be very human and very cultural, but it is not acceptable and it is not an option.

The alternative position to whether torture is acceptable - that's not an alternative position, that's barbarism. The question here is not whether torture is acceptable or whether it works. It should be simply seen as a war crime. There's no other position on torture.

Abortion is not the lesser of two evils. It is a crime. It is to throw someone out in order to save another. That's what the Mafia does.

IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral.

I guess there isn’t a rule book for what might be unacceptable to do to another human being.

The torture that they are coming up with in China is so creative. They have this other method where they'll take a bamboo and they'll plant it in your anus and just let it grow. So patient. Man, watch out for China, I say. They have all the ambition as we do but none of the heart.

Does the commandment 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' mean nothing to us? Are we to interpret it as meaning 'Thou shalt not kill except on the grand scale,' or 'Thou shalt not kill except when the national leaders say to do so'?

There are some things to die for but none to kill for.