Moral Controversy Quotes

Of course, infanticide needs to be strictly legally controlled and rare - but it should not be ruled out, any more than abortion.

Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia have been profound ethical issues confronting doctors since the birth of Western medicine, more than 2,000 years ago.

This is an execution, not surgery. Where does that come from, that you must find the method of execution that causes the least pain?

Stupid people shouldn’t breed.

The very idea that a child that is almost born into the world could still have their life taken from them is just anathema to me, and I can't conscious about a party that supports that.

To me, drone use is a moral issue.

I had never considered myself a political guy, but there are certain things I can't shut up about. When I hear people say things like, 'If 'we' allow gays to marry, then people will want to marry animals and children,' I can't just stand there.

Thus, the controversy about the Moral Majority arises not only from its views, but from its name - which, in the minds of many, seems to imply that only one set of public policies is moral and only one majority can possibly be right.

The God of the Old Testament is the depiction of evil.

I would have no moral objection to publicly beheading drug dealers.

I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact.

I have lost no sleep over the possibility that an innocent man might be executed.

I think in the years to come what Reagan will be remembered for is that he had the chance to stop the plague and he chose not to because the 'right people' were dying.

You know, you hear about these writers reading 'Lolita' at 12. I wanted to be a chemistry teacher.

In modern Britain the most dangerous place to be is in your mother's womb. It should be a place of sanctity.

Planned Parenthood's entire existence is basically based on keeping people in the dark through euphemism. You don't call it genocide, you call it reproductive health. So that's why Planned Parenthood has - nobody really thought.

Late-term abortions are unconscionable.

I have great trouble with the people who envision AIDS as a punishment from God.

No one really has the guts to say it, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we?

It's a completely powerful and serious book, as good as anything in prose or poetry written by a 'beat' writer, and one of the most alive books written by any American for years. I don't see how it could be considered immoral.

It was rumored, in 1946, that the hangman in Nuremberg adjusted the nooses of some of the condemned to magnify the pain of suffocation. Such sadism was not called for then and is not called for now. But if fornication is wrong, there is no denying that it can bring pleasure. The death of Saddam Hussein at rope's end brings a pleasure that is undeniable, and absolutely chaste in its provenance.

… the damnable doctrine of Wilberforce

It is as if Clinton had called one of the most respected character witnesses in all of U.S. history to testify that the primal urge has a most distinguished presidential pedigree.

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

The inevitability of abortion. But I refuse to accept the amoral consequences that are even far worse than that, which is harvesting them because we decided that as an adult society, we can use children to make our lives better, if you seek the reverse.