Ethical Issue Quotes

When George W. Bush was president, his daddy was raising money for the Bush library. I thought that was fine. When Bob Dole was Majority Leader, Elizabeth Dole was the president of American Red Cross. I didn't say anything.

I think we have deluded ourselves into believing that people don't know that abortion is killing. So any pretense that abortion is not killing is a signal of our ambivalence, a signal that we cannot say yes, it kills a fetus.

Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.

…unjust and ethically unacceptable.

With regard to the freedom of the individual for choice with regard to abortion, there is one individual who is not being considered at all, and that is the one who is being aborted. And I have noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.

There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might be the most immoral desire a man can possess.

The problem with the Australian practice of abortion is that an objectively grave matter has been reduced to a question of the mother's convenience.

I believe every abortion is a tragedy.

If I know anything about the character of God after fifty years of ministry, I know that God hates abortion.

The problem is we need much more moral content.

There are few instances when American history offers us two clear sides of a moral line.

It Is Not Linen You're Wearing Out But Human Creatures' Lives.

There comes a time when a human being has to either face evil or admit to allowing it. Abortion is legal in the United States, but it should not be celebrated or used as a political tool. Viable babies are human beings.

You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.

Morally speaking, we should be concerned for our whole environment.

How have we come to a place in society where millions of babies can be slaughtered and disposed of in the name of progress? Shocking but real.

It's an odd state to be in, blowing the whistle on your home country.

I don't see why someone should lose their life just so you can have a snack.

I consider your conduct unethical and lousy.

If somebody has an extreme amount of wealth and is not using it for some good purpose, only for their own enjoyment or satisfaction, then clearly there's a moral failing in the world in which we live.

This is not about what party you're part of. This is about right and wrong, ... the conscience of this nation.

Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right to do it.

I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning.

In the eyes of the Catholic Church, abortion is a tragedy. Our principle objective must be to try and win greater sympathy for that perspective and for the value of human life from its beginnings.

Tourism is a mortal sin.