ethics Quotes

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.