Quotes About Morality

Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.

Patriotism should be sought for and will be found in right living. No man can be a good Latter-day Saint and not be true to the best interests and general welfare of his country.

Safety is the last refuge of the scoundrel!

Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards; those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and those bastards always talk about the purity of race.

When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart.

[W]e're taught that if one person kills another person, that is murder; but if a government kills a hundred thousand persons, that is patriotism.

Those who believe patriotism to be the last refuge of the scoundrel have underestimated compassion.

The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious

It is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during 'God save the King' than of stealing from a poor box

Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right but our country right or wrong.

I would not mind being a bit evil, for the larger good.

The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.

The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.

There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.

for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized.

I am sustained by the tranquility of an upright and loyal heart.

We must never settle for harmony at the expense of holiness, nor for peace at the expense of principle.

I recognize that in some cases it's more important to have freedom and justice than to have peace.

War with vices, but peace with individuals.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion.