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"Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience"
Robert Casey, Politician
"We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children"
Ricardo Lagos, Politician
"The tobacco companies knew quite early on the addictive nature of their product"
Neil Cavuto, Journalist
"My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life"
Mac Thornberry, Politician
"Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I am content to observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape from it, and with this I begin and end"
John Newton, Soldier
"Morality is not only taught; it is caught"
Neil Kurshan
"We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience"
Gary L. Francione, Educator
"No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause"
John Mason Brown, Critic
"Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties"
Ahmed Ben Bella, Politician
"No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference"
Rocco Buttiglione, Politician
"The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy"
Anthony Storr, Author
"Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty"
Mario Vargas Llosa, Writer
"To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault"
Robert Conquest, Historian
"There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing"
Roger Caras, Photographer
"In this generation, the issue pressing that question on our consciences is the issue of abortion"
Robert Casey, Politician
"However, we might oppose it, abortion is a sad feature of modern life"
Robert Casey, Politician
"Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon"
Richard John Neuhaus, Writer
"Evil hiding among us is an ancient theme"
John Carpenter, Director
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"
John Acton, Historian
"Every person's every action has an effect"
Rosanne Cash, Musician
"The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern"
Daniel Dennett, Philosopher
"Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy"
Edward Heath, Leader
"The man who kills the animals today is the man who kills the people who get in his way tomorrow"
Dian Fossey, Scientist
"Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods"
Margaret Chase Smith, Politician
"Reagan and Bush... made the world safe for hypocrisy"
Julia Phillips, Author
"So the next thing I assume I'll be hearing from Republicans, they want to change rules some way, as they do on the House when you get a problem with ethics, they just change the rules"
Harry Reid, Politician
"What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists - whatever else they might be - might also be rational human beings; which is to say that in their own minds they have a rational justification for their actions"
William Blum, Author
"We have seen that in this country in the last few years, particularly on Wall Street, with the rise of the old human frailty of greed. This occurs when people begin to serve only their own needs to the detriment of everyone else"
Lee R. Raymond, Businessman
"You just have to do what you know is right"
Daniel Berrigan, Clergyman
"Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him"
Remy de Gourmont, Novelist
"For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor"
Quintilian, Educator
"Advocates of unrestricted abortion do not want the public to focus on these undeniable facts of fetal development, but the facts cannot be ignored"
Robert Casey, Politician
"Abortion on demand has, in my judgment, contributed significantly to an environment in our country in which life has become very cheap"
Robert Casey, Politician
"Abortion is the ultimate violence"
Robert Casey, Politician
"Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues"
Quintilian, Educator
"The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice"
Quintilian, Educator
"I do not say that one who is vegetarian is full of compassion and one who is not is otherwise. We sometimes find people who are vegetarians are very bad people"
Morarji Desai, Politician
"It's taken us 10 years, and it was constant excitement. I was constantly shocked by how evil he could be. Mao was very, very shrewd but he didn't have human feeling"
Jung Chang, Writer
"Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation"
John Jay Chapman, Poet
"There is no system that is inherently moral if the participants themselves are not"
Lee R. Raymond, Businessman
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