Quotes About Morality

We need to protect every life and that we need to defend the lives of the unborn.

The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.

Books for teens are amazing and compelling, I think, because they're generally set in a time in people's lives when they are uncertain about who they are and who they love and what the right thing is to do.

Morality is contraband in war.

War is the greatest evil Satan has invented to corrupt our hearts and souls. We should honor our soldiers, but we should never honor war.

The case against vivisection is the same as that against war and all other forms of cruelty - that violence does not produce long-term solutions.

There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.

I'm all for dropping lawyers into any war time situation.

For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.

People who stand up against wars aren't necessarily always wrong.

I'm a pacifist. I don't believe in 'good' wars.

The only war that we must all fight is the one against evil.

Bombs know no ism but barbarism. The laws that successfully govern a peaceful and democratic society do not interfere with the only law bombs know, which is the law of gravity.

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima - and you know, is the price worth it?

You cannot tell whether a person is good or bad by his vicissitudes in life. Good and bad fortune are matters of fate.

He who makes war his profession cannot be otherwise than vicious. War makes thieves, and peace brings them to the gallows.

Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled "enemy?

No ethos, pursued without thought or mercy, is ethical.

Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.

The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high places.

He is a truly virtuous man who wishes always to be open to the observation of honest men.

Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.

If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war.