Quotes About Ethics

Bush spoke of another principle, that a just war must "support a just cause." In the Persian Gulf, he said, "our cause could not be more noble." What nation has ever said its war was not noble?

Sometimes violence is necessary to prevent even more violence, " I concluded, almost as if it were an epiphany.

Wars are all fought by men who either believe they are right or who have no other choice. How they fight defines who they are when the blood stops flowing.

In modern fantasy (literary or governmental), killing people is the usual solution to the so-called war between good and evil.

When you think about new-born babies being killed in our own lifetime, ' he said, 'all the efforts of culture seem worthless. What have people learned from all our Goethes and Bachs? To kill babies?

An unavoidable war is called justice. When brutality is the only option left it is holy

War was so simple, wasn't it? Much simpler than justice.

That is how war corrupts us. It plays on our pride in our own free will.

There is no such thing as a "just" war. It's just war. And it's antithetical to the Gospel.

The worst kind of tyrant is one that is righteously wrong

If international law is, in some ways, at the vanishing point of law, the law of war is, perhaps even more conspicuously, at the vanishing point of international law.

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.

…If one who slays one is a murderer then he who slays a thousand is not a hero, ' said Lalu.- Pg. #112, Across the Black Waters.

When you get right down to it, militaries are essentially legalized mafias.

patriotism of many is....a voice and nothing more... A spirit of money-making has eaten up our patriotism. Our morals are more depreciated than our currency.

You stay in the war because it would be shameful to stay out of it. An then grief seizes you and hold its grip till anger has turned you into a soldier.

It isn't about being fair and equal. It's about the difference between right and wrong." He stared out at the bloody Elinarch. "And this was wrong.

Vice stirs up war virtue fights.

Ez for war I call it murder - There you hev it plain and flat I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment for that.

The archiving industry, much like the funeral industry and the wedding industry, these industries can be very exploitative.

Just because you can, doesn't necessarily mean that you should!

Pissing people off doesn't mean you're doing the right things, but doing the right things will almost inevitably piss people off.

My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there's hardly a difference.

We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.