Quotes About Ethics

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.

War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.

Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.

Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you.

How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?

A battle that you win cancels any other bad action of yours. In the same way, by losing one, all the good things worked by you before become vain.

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

War is indefensible on every grounds, military and economic and diplomatic and also on moral.

I would never rob your cradles to feed the dogs of war

There are two types of laws: there are just laws and there are unjust laws... What is the difference between the two?...An unjust law is a man-made code that is out of harmony with the moral law.

It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end.

I shall act as I think my duty requires.

If a man does not investigate into the matter of bushido daily, it will be difficult for him to die a brave and manly death.

It is better to have a war for justice than peace in injustice.

You cannot be on one hand dedicated to peace and on the other dedicated to violence. Those two things are irreconcilable.

As far as I am concerned, war itself is immoral.

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

In the gates of Heaven, the war medals are nothing but the evidences of murder!

Neither Jewish morality nor Jewish tradition can be used to disallow terror as a means of war.

By bringing shame to a person, how could one expect to make him a better man?

We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where we can set them free.

One thing that Life and I agreed right from the start was that one war photographer was enough for my family; I was to be a photographer of peace.

The more laws, the less justice.

Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.