morality Quotes

No one is pro-abortion.

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

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

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.