Quotes about Ethics
We must not be surprised when we hear of murders, killings, of wars, or of hatred...If a mother can kill her own child, what is left but for us to kill each other?
- Mother Teresa
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