Quotes About Ethics

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

Morally it makes no difference whether a person is killed in war or condemned to starve by the indifference of others.

People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale.

War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.

He that preaches war is the devil's chaplain.

During peace time a scientist belongs to the World, but during war time he belongs to his country.

A nation's strength is found not in the number of its laws but in the character of its people.

A man's idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement and burglary.

The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World War II who bombed civilians in Dresden and Hiroshima, neither of which were military targets.

Would the media insist on having a Holocaust-denier to balance any report about the Second Word War?

The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?

In order to do good, you may have to engage in evil

The war against illegal file-sharing is like the church's age-old war against masturbation. It's a war you just can't win.

A "just war" - if there could be such a thing - would not require conscription. Volunteers would be plentiful.

The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.

It must be said in addition that the men with the most scrupulous respect for embryonic life are also those who are most zealous when it comes to condemning adults to death in war.

I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.

Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.

It is bias to think that the art of war is just for killing people. It is not to kill people, it is to kill evil. It is a strategem to give life to many people by killing the evil of one person.

You actually cannot sell the idea of freedom, democracy, diversity, as if it were a brand attribute and not reality -- not at the same time as you're bombing people, you can't.

In a war, you must hate somebody or love somebody; you must have a position or you cannot stand what goes on

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.