Moral Issue Quotes

I have a problem with homosexual acts.

I never had a moral problem with being gay.

Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable.

I think Slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.

The issue of wealth inequality is ... the great moral issue of our time.

Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil.

Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral.

Abortion on demand is bad social policy.

What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear moral issue.

…unjust and ethically unacceptable.

I really don't believe in abortion. It's like killing a baby.

The whole issue of race and discrimination is a moral issue.

I think from a moral issue, CEOs should not be making - whether it's 270 or 300 times more than their workers are making.

For me, open source is a moral thing.

I think as a moral question, restaurant workers should get paid more.

Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.

The religious factions that are growing throughout our land are not using their religious clout with wisdom. They are trying to force government leaders into following their position 100 percent. If you disagree with these religious groups on a particular moral issue, they complain, they threaten you with a loss of money or votes or both. I'm frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in 'A,' 'B,' 'C,' and 'D.' Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me? And I am even more angry as a legislator who must endure the threats of every religious group who thinks it has some God-granted right to control my vote on every roll call in the Senate. I am warning them today: I will fight them every step of the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all Americans in the name of 'conservatism.'

I think we have a sin problem in the world. It's so easy to say we have a race problem, but we got a sin problem.

To me, drone use is a moral issue.

Society cannot escape what is essentially a moral question: When does human life deserve legal protection from the state? And society certainly cannot escape this dilemma by denying that it is fundamentally a moral issue, no matter what position one chooses.

Euthanasia and assisted suicide are never acceptable acts of mercy. They always gravely exploit the suffering and desperate, extinguishing life in the name of the 'quality of life' itself.

Here's what income and wealth inequality is about. Last year, the top 25 hedge fund managers made more than 24 billion, enough to pay the salaries of 425,000 public school teachers. This level of inequality is neither moral or sustainable

We have the prospect of intervening in the natural lottery.

The only way you can separate yourself from the [Roman Catholic] church is by knowingly and deliberately denying a dogma of faith. Abortion is not a dogma.

If the bishops are saying that it is divine revelation that seven percent of unemployment is morally unacceptable and that that is a teaching which must as a matter of faith be accepted by all Catholics, I respectfully dissent.