Quotes About Morality

War was so simple, wasn't it? Much simpler than justice.

How a member of the church—one who had read the Good Lord's bible—could sit so calmly and watch a man be led to his destruction frightened me.

The Americans won't win. They're not fighting for their homeland. They just want to be good. In order to be good, they just have to fight awhile and then leave.

There is no such thing as a "just" war. It's just war. And it's antithetical to the Gospel.

The worst kind of tyrant is one that is righteously wrong

The single greatest tool for making moral people commit atrocities is group affiliation. The single greatest tool for promoting global human rights and equality is to end group affiliation.

Every human life has infinite value and to destroy even one is a crime against all humanity.

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.

…If one who slays one is a murderer then he who slays a thousand is not a hero, ' said Lalu.- Pg. #112, Across the Black Waters.

As long as greed is the root of all evil, there will not be peace.Get rid of selfishness and greed too will disappear.

It isn't about being fair and equal. It's about the difference between right and wrong." He stared out at the bloody Elinarch. "And this was wrong.

Vice stirs up war virtue fights.

The weak against the strong Is always in the wrong.

Ez for war I call it murder - There you hev it plain and flat I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment for that.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world is to try to be a moral person.

We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.

A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people

Beware of greed and remain pure and just. Restrain yourself from every vice. He who cannot restrain himself, how will he be able to teach others restraint?

Whoever passes forty without his virtue overpowering his vice, let him get ready for hellfire. This advice contains enough for people of knowledge.

I do not pretend that I have led a blameless life, or that one fault justifies another, but the public in judging a case like mine should remember that the darkest life may have a bright side...

There must be no compromise with slavery - none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.