Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
Source: Letter from the Birmingham Jail
Why War? (November 21, 1998) http://web.archive.org/web/20070324011124/http://www.natvan.com/pub/1998/112198.txt, American Dissident Voices Broadcast of November 21, 1998 http://archive.org/details/DrWilliamPierceAudioArchive308RadioBroadcasts <br class="br">1990s, 1990
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
Source: Letter from the Birmingham Jail
“Abort it and try again. It would be immoral to bring it into the world if you have the choice.”
Richard Dawkins (1941) English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author
On a hypothetical fetus with Down syndrome https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/statuses/502106262088466432 (20 August 2014) <br class="br">Twitter
“Actually, I think it's more immoral to use less force than necessary, than it is to use more.”
Curtis LeMay (1906–1990) American general and politician
if you use less force, you kill off more of humanity in the long run, because you are merely protracting the struggle.
Mission with LeMay: My Story (1965), p. 382.
“I believe that homosexual acts between individuals are immoral”
Peter Pace (1945) 16th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Context: I believe that homosexual acts between individuals are immoral, and that we should not condone immoral acts. I do not believe that the armed forces are well served by saying through our policies that it's okay to be immoral in any way, not just with regards to homosexual acts.
“I think "immoral" is probably the wrong word to use…I prefer the word "unethical."”
Ivan Boesky (1937) American investor, white-collar criminal
Den of Thieves (1992), by John B. Stewart
Ilana Mercer South African writer
"What if the Media Were Moral" http://www.wnd.com/2013/10/what-if-the-media-were-moral WorldNetDaily.com, October 17, 2013. <br class="br">2010s, 2013
George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian
That's not accurate. Although it's true they were used as shields, the fact is they were humans already. So if these humans were used as shields, they were human shields. They weren't being used as human shields. Got that?
Books, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? (2004)
“it is just as wrong, or even perhaps more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1960s, Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)
Variant: I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.
Context: I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek. I have tried to make clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.
“I'm pro-choice, but I believe that most abortions are immoral. I take the nuanced middle ground.”
Dennis Prager (1948) American writer, speaker, radio and TV commentator, theologian
1990s
Brigid Brophy (1929–1995) novelist, essayist
Source: The Rights of Animals (1965), p. 17