Quotes About Morality

One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part.

War for the sake of war is sin, but war for the sake of defense is duty.

The more laws, the less justice.

Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.

We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?

We must kill them in war, just because they live beyond the river. If they lived on this side, we would be called murderers.

The bad thing of war is, that it makes more evil people than it can take away.

Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.

No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary suffering; it simply performs its job horrifyingly well.

What makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?

The man with the greatest soul will always face the greatest war with the low minded person.

I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war.

A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace.

Although war is evil, it is occasionally the lesser of two evils.

Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.

With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.

The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.

Some of us, perhaps all of us, believe that it is legitimate to kill enemy soldiers in a war, as if war were a special circumstance that shrinks the sizes of enemy souls.

I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes.

Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.

Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict.

War justifies everything.

A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.

How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.