Human beings Quote by Torbjorn Tannsjo Download Open image “According to deontology it is wrong to kill an innocent human being, period.” — Torbjorn Tannsjo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Human beings Humans Innocent Periods
The main objection to killing people as a punishment...is that killing people is wrong — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
Of course killing people is 'wrong', but I think history shows that sometimes it serves the greater good. — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
Yes, I always had that sense it was wrong. I don’t think anybody can kill somebody and think that it’s right. — Jeffrey Dahmer Copy Share Image
“It is wrong to kill anyone. It is wrong to kill those who kill. It is wrong to kill the executioner. The laws on… — Charles Nodier Copy Share Image
If we believe that murder is wrong and not admissible in our society, then it has to be wrong for everyone, not just individuals… — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
Torturing a human being is almost always wrong, but it is not absolutely wrong. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
By the divine providence [animals] are intended for man's use... Hence it is not wrong for man to make use of them, either by… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Being a moral realist I see normative ethics as a search of the truth about our obligations and a search of explanation; the idea… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
I do believe that what I have called populist democracy is to be preferred to what I have called elitist democracy. — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
It is true that it feels very differently to enjoy a good meal, taking part in an interesting conversation, or to think of how… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
It is obvious that humanity faces existential threats of a global nature. They are global in the sense that is not possible to deal… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
Are there any good arguments in defence of moral nihilism? I think not. — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
How could it be that I had a legal obligation to kill people I did not know, and who did certainly not consent to… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
I want to think that there are better ways of obviating murder than to resort to capital punishment, but I realise that this may… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
Even where people in different cultures agree they may all have gone wrong. — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
The Chinese are generally speaking much more reluctant than Westerners to killing as a means to the rescue of lives. — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
I am indeed a hedonistic utilitarian. I have defended hedonistic utilitarianism for quite a while. — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
What we need is legislation, not negotiation, for the entire globe. — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our… — Kenan Malik Copy Share Image
Gambling has held human beings in thrall for millennia. It has been engaged in everywhere, from the dregs of society to the most respectable… — Peter L. Bernstein Copy Share Image
Here's the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples. There are… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
What we're supposed to do as actors is be able to portray real human beings and emotions. And if you grow up in this… — Emily Browning Copy Share Image
A human being can only absorb a small amount of the mystical kundalini, you can be exposed again and again to it, but it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I recognize I am essentially a failed human being in the sense that I can't possibly live up to the expectations of an Almighty. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated… — Hanns Eisler Copy Share Image
For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion the power… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
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