ethics Quotes

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

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.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

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

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

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

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.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.