Quotes About Ethics

We must not be surprised when we hear of murders, killings, of wars, or of hatred...If a mother can kill her own child, what is left but for us to kill each other?

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States launched a covert war against another nation in violation of international law, a war that was wrong and immoral.

I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.

I am a man of peace. I believe in peace. But I do not want peace at any price.

Men rush to arms for slight causes, or no cause at all, and once taken up there is no longer any respect for law, divine or human.

Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.

My life has been devoted to arms, yet I look upon war at all times, and under all circumstances, as a national calamity to be avoided if compatible with national honor.

We must take the profit out of war.

You must not blame us scientists for the use which war technicians have put our discoveries.

May we look upon our treasure, the furniture of our houses, and our garments, and try to discover whether the seeds of war have nourishment in these our possessions.

Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime.

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man.

If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals. And I think he's right. He, and I'd say I, were behaving as war criminals.

Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.

We should keep [the Panama Canal]. After all, we stole it fair and square.