Quotes About Morality

Only in America can you be Pro-Death Penalty, Pro-War, Pro-Unmanned Drone Bombs, Pro-Nuclear Weapons, Pro-Guns, Pro-Torture, Pro-Land Mines, AND still call yourself 'Pro-Life.'

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

We must not be surprised when we hear of murders, killings, of wars, or of hatred...If a mother can kill her own child, what is left but for us to kill each other?

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war.

Lechery, lechery; still, wars and lechery: nothing else holds fashion.

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.

Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

We must take the profit out of war.

Make love, not war. Unless you're Loki, in which case: do what you want.

Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime.

American GIs don't fight this unjust immoral and illegal war of Johnson's.

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man.

Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

Morally it makes no difference whether a person is killed in war or condemned to starve by the indifference of others.

People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale.

War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.