Quotes About Morality

A nation's strength is found not in the number of its laws but in the character of its people.

A man's idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement and burglary.

The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World War II who bombed civilians in Dresden and Hiroshima, neither of which were military targets.

The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?

In order to do good, you may have to engage in evil

The war against illegal file-sharing is like the church's age-old war against masturbation. It's a war you just can't win.

A "just war" - if there could be such a thing - would not require conscription. Volunteers would be plentiful.

Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.

It must be said in addition that the men with the most scrupulous respect for embryonic life are also those who are most zealous when it comes to condemning adults to death in war.

I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.

Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.

It is bias to think that the art of war is just for killing people. It is not to kill people, it is to kill evil. It is a strategem to give life to many people by killing the evil of one person.

I did only what my duty demanded. I could have taken no other course without dishonor.

War makes murderers out of otherwise decent people. All wars, and all decent people.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.

The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.

War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.

The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred.

In the name of God and humanity I protest!

War is a terrible trade. But when the cause is just, the smell of gunpowder is sweet.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

We shall never be able to effect physical disarmament until we have succeeded in effecting moral disarmament.

War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is Godlike in man. In our age there can be no peace that is not honorable; there can be no war that is not dishonorable.