Quotes About Morality

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

It is not right to exult over slain men.

I think that Lee should have been hanged. It was all the worse that he was a good man and a fine character and acted conscientiously... It's always the good men who do the most harm in the world.

There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.

There is no moral difference between a stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. Both kill innocent people for political reasons.

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.

Ethical obligation has to subordinate itself to the totalitarian nature of war.

Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable?

War is always a matter of doing evil in the hope that good may come of it.

One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the gospels without feeling that something is amiss.

We are fully aware that, in a world at war, each set of belligerents is over ready to regard those who are not with them as against them; but the course we have followed is a just course.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

A wrong war brings wrong; so does a right war.

We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.

It is in this sense that Franklin says, "war is robbery, commerce is generally cheating.

The moral equation strongly tells everyone who understands freedom, who understands morality, that Israel is engaging in a just war in defense of its people and its freedom.

The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War.

If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.

There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery.

We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.

The right to have a slave implies the right in some one to make the slave; that right must be equal and mutual, and this would resolve society into a state of perpetual war.

A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.