Quotes about Morality
I believe the assertion that every human life has an inherent and inalienable value will only be strengthened if we apply this principle to the morality of defending both convicted criminals and the lives of the unborn.
— Blase J. Cupich
The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
— St. Basil
The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.
— St. Augustine
The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high places.
— GK Chesterton
War with evil; but show no spirit of malignity toward the man who may be responsible for the evil. Put it out of his power to do wrong.
— Theodore Roosevelt
...war is just to those for whom it is necessary, and arms are clear of impiety for those who have no hope left but in arms.
— Livy
War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of a state of peace and friendship with all mankind.
— Thomas Jefferson
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?
— Mahatma Gandhi
The issue is now quite clear. It is between light and darkness and every one must choose his side.
— GK Chesterton
Every human life has infinite value and to destroy even one is a crime against all humanity.
— Marty Rubin
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
— Abraham Lincoln