Quotes about Ethics
There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.
— Abraham Lincoln
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
— Thomas Jefferson
If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
— Abraham Lincoln
A nation's strength is found not in the number of its laws but in the character of its people.
— James Montgomery Boice
To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.
— Theodore Roosevelt
There are two types of laws: there are just laws and there are unjust laws... What is the difference between the two?...An unjust law is a man-made code that is out of harmony with the moral law.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The more laws, the less justice.
— Cicero
Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.
— Edmund Burke
A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace.
— Theodore Roosevelt
With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.
— Abraham Lincoln
God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.
— Euripides
If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.
— CS Lewis