Quotes About Ethics

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?

Man is now able to soar into outer space and reach up to the moon; but he is not moral enough to live at peace with his neighbor!

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

Effective action is always unjust.

If I have to choose between peace and righteousness, I'll choose righteousness.

Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.

And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?

It never occurred to me that anyone would name a nuclear missile "Peacekeeper". It never occurred to me that thousands of people would be killed in the name of "peace-keeping".

Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.

In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign... Secondly, a just cause... Thirdly... a rightful intention.

The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong-doer.

No state at war with another state should engage in hostilities of such a kind as to render mutual confidence impossible when peace will have been made.

A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang.

Warmakers are often wrong. ... Peace advocates are sometimes right, especially when their ideas are not only morally sound but politically realistic

Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent... It is, in the deepest sense, a privilege as well as a duty to speak out to many thousands of people.

If you are required to kill someone today, on the promise of a political leader that someone else shall live in peace tomorrow, believe me, you are not only a double murderer, you are a suicide, too.

I'm at peace with myself because what I talk about is the way I live.

The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all - he must fight to uphold it, unceasingly.

I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest good of the greatest number. The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good of all.

Peace might sell, but who's buying?

People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security.

Are some women and children going to die? Yeah. But it's doing the right thing. You got money, you sit around talking about peace. People who don't have money need some help.

When you see your fellow religious man, don't call him brother; but when you see a man of honour, a man of goodness, a man of peace, a man of ethics, now you can call him as your brother!