Quotes About Morality

A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.

When it comes to world news, attitude is what marks the distinction between justice and vengeance. Justice is pure, but vengeance brings more ruin.

In a free society, how can you commit a crime against yourself?

Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated.

I can't speak for a war that I believe is immoral.

The man who hates war more than he hates the Nazis is a wicked man.

Only in war are you holy, and when you are robbers and cruel.

You can be killed just as dead in an unjustified war as you can in one protecting your own home.

A fanatic's willingness to kill or be killed in the service of a cause cannot prove the rightness of that cause.

What does it matter if, by chance, a little vile blood be spilled?

Even for the world's only superpower, the ends don't always justify the means.

If we don't prosecute war criminals, what's the next horrible thing they can do? As anyone knows, if you're not held accountable, you think you can get away with it, and it becomes OK.

To me, to say that war isn't evil is to say that nothing is evil.

There are issues of war and peace. And then, there are issues of life and death like this one that are no less morally compelling than war itself.

There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.

War ... a reversal of the rules where a man is permitted to kill all the humans he can.

The search for a moral equivalent of war continues to define American liberalism to this day.

Did not Jesus say, resist not evil — with evil? Is not war the worst form of that evil.

Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart?

...war is just to those for whom it is necessary, and arms are clear of impiety for those who have no hope left but in arms.

Vice foments war; it is virtue which actually fights. If there were no virtue, we would live in peace forever.

I believe all war to be wholly wrong.

I cannot give active support in the war effort without denying a life-time of practice.

The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.