Quotes About Ethics

We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?

We must kill them in war, just because they live beyond the river. If they lived on this side, we would be called murderers.

War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.

The bad thing of war is, that it makes more evil people than it can take away.

Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.

No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary suffering; it simply performs its job horrifyingly well.

What makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?

It is not permissible for a Muslim to buy products of the countries that are in a state of war with Islam and Muslims, for example, Israel.

The man with the greatest soul will always face the greatest war with the low minded person.

Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness....Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency?

I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war.

A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace.

Chivalry - ...a romantic idealism closely related to Christianity, which makes honor the guiding principle of conduct. Connected with this is the ancient concept of the gentleman.

Although war is evil, it is occasionally the lesser of two evils.

Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.

The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.

Some of us, perhaps all of us, believe that it is legitimate to kill enemy soldiers in a war, as if war were a special circumstance that shrinks the sizes of enemy souls.

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes.

War justifies everything.

How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

It is not right to exult over slain men.

I think that Lee should have been hanged. It was all the worse that he was a good man and a fine character and acted conscientiously... It's always the good men who do the most harm in the world.