Quotes About Ethics

What makes a human being want to kill another who has done him no personal harm? Patriotism.

There is a relentless war between good and evil which has to be fought whether one likes it or not.

Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice.

Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook.

There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent people for political reasons.

Have you ever heard of the theory that it is better for one man to die than an entire nation to suffer? Do you believe that to be true? Is it ever okay to take a life in hopes of saving others?

Is killing a known terrorist wrong? I ask this, did the terrorist allow any of his victims quarter? No, then allow him no quarter, and hoist the black flag.

Surely no one would ever use such a weapon against a city.""There are no limits in war, " Volger said, still staring out the window.

All is fair in fashion and war.

I believe that this war, upon which I entered as a war of defense and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest.

The worst stories usually make you think: 'but nobody had to die'.These are called true stories.

If you are not a Conchie, what are you man?' demanded the Major.After some moments' thought, Francis said, 'I am a human being who does not believe in killing my fellow man for insufficient reason.

Where would the world be if we took every man to book? There were thousands of Kantoreks, all of whom were convinced that they were acting for the best- in a way that cost them nothing.

Everything is fair and possible in love, war, and politics.

Morality is decided by the victors

It's worse for you. You want the guilt to absolve you. Just like you want your wife and child to absolve you. Once absolved, you can kill or take soup.

The hardest - the part that's hard is to kill, but once you kill, that becomes easier, to kill the next person and the next one and the next one." -Varnado Simpson, Charlie Company of My Lai

A phased decision can avoid there being a key moment when the moral issue about killing civilians has to be confronted.

If we go to war, it must only be with right on our side.

Love is not a justification for war. Anyone who uses it as such doesn't know squat about being human.

It seems logical that he who supports total war in principle cannot complain of a war against civilians.

Nothing doth worse become a man (I will not say a Christian man) than war.

How could a society produce such masters and such monsters?

What had human beings become? Did war make us evil or just activate an evil already lurking within us?