Quotes about Morality
One should feel inside oneself for right and wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God.
- DH Lawrence
Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.
- Mahatma Gandhi
The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.
- Mark Twain
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
- Edmund Burke
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
- Jimmy Carter
War with vices, but peace with individuals.
- St. Isidore of Seville
The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion.
- Mother Teresa
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?
- George Bernard Shaw
If I have to choose between peace and righteousness, I'll choose righteousness.
- Theodore Roosevelt
In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign... Secondly, a just cause... Thirdly... a rightful intention.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
We wish peace, but we wish the peace of justice, the peace of righteousness. We wish it because we think it is right and not because we are afraid.
- Theodore Roosevelt