Quotes About Ethics

Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war.

A fanatic's willingness to kill or be killed in the service of a cause cannot prove the rightness of that cause.

A person whose job is deep thinking about atomic war would no more call a 'megadeath' a 'million corpses' than an embalmer would refer to a 'loved one' as a 'stiff.'

What does it matter if, by chance, a little vile blood be spilled?

How can you send somebody else's kid to war if you won't send your own?

Even for the world's only superpower, the ends don't always justify the means.

If we don't prosecute war criminals, what's the next horrible thing they can do? As anyone knows, if you're not held accountable, you think you can get away with it, and it becomes OK.

To me, to say that war isn't evil is to say that nothing is evil.

There are issues of war and peace. And then, there are issues of life and death like this one that are no less morally compelling than war itself.

There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.

War ... a reversal of the rules where a man is permitted to kill all the humans he can.

It must be a hard thing to kill a man you don't know and don't hate.

The search for a moral equivalent of war continues to define American liberalism to this day.

Man is, perhaps, no more prone to war than he used to be and no more inclined to commit other evil deeds. But a given amount of ill will or folly will go further than it used to.

Tony Blair is a war criminal.

Vice foments war; it is virtue which actually fights. If there were no virtue, we would live in peace forever.

I believe all war to be wholly wrong.

Truth and non-violence are not cloistered virtues but applicable as much in the forum and the legislatures as in the market place.

The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

War makes its own morals.

Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for the sake of it.

When I started out, it was considered very wrong to change an image. There were scandals if someone inserted a sky into a war picture or something. Now it's all about that.

In modern eyes, precious though wars may be they must not be waged solely for the sake of the ideal harvest. Only when forced upon one, is a war now thought permissible.

In times of war, don't touch the guns; stay as a human! Always refuse to be a killer!