Quotes About Morality

The issue is now quite clear. It is between light and darkness and every one must choose his side.

Best to live and love by the maxim that 'silence in the face of evil is evil itself', but when it's evil fighting evil, let evil kill itself.

Nonviolence simply cannot defend property rights over human rights.

The worst stories usually make you think: 'but nobody had to die'.These are called true stories.

If you are not a Conchie, what are you man?' demanded the Major.After some moments' thought, Francis said, 'I am a human being who does not believe in killing my fellow man for insufficient reason.

The longer he remained on this earth, the more he was sure that mankind had no clue about God or heaven. Not when they used him as an excuse to kill, to punish, to discriminate.

Where would the world be if we took every man to book? There were thousands of Kantoreks, all of whom were convinced that they were acting for the best- in a way that cost them nothing.

It's worse for you. You want the guilt to absolve you. Just like you want your wife and child to absolve you. Once absolved, you can kill or take soup.

The hardest - the part that's hard is to kill, but once you kill, that becomes easier, to kill the next person and the next one and the next one." -Varnado Simpson, Charlie Company of My Lai

Crime, like war, is an aberration of creation.

A phased decision can avoid there being a key moment when the moral issue about killing civilians has to be confronted.

If we go to war, it must only be with right on our side.

Love is not a justification for war. Anyone who uses it as such doesn't know squat about being human.

It seems logical that he who supports total war in principle cannot complain of a war against civilians.

Nothing doth worse become a man (I will not say a Christian man) than war.

How could a society produce such masters and such monsters?

What had human beings become? Did war make us evil or just activate an evil already lurking within us?

Sometimes violence is necessary to prevent even more violence, " I concluded, almost as if it were an epiphany.

Wars are all fought by men who either believe they are right or who have no other choice. How they fight defines who they are when the blood stops flowing.

In modern fantasy (literary or governmental), killing people is the usual solution to the so-called war between good and evil.

When you think about new-born babies being killed in our own lifetime, ' he said, 'all the efforts of culture seem worthless. What have people learned from all our Goethes and Bachs? To kill babies?

...I knew in the end the guilt of one side did not prove the innocence of the other.

It is morally appalling for the so called liberators of South Sudan to keep liberating their own people from a war that has already been won.

An unavoidable war is called justice. When brutality is the only option left it is holy