Quotes about Morality
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
You've just got to do what you think is right, and just make the decisions based upon noble causes. And a noble cause is peace and security and freedom.
— George W. Bush
Peace springs from righteousness in the soul, from upright living.
— David O. McKay
It doesn't matter if an animal can reason. It matters only that it is capable of suffering and that is why I consider it my neighbor.
— Albert Schweitzer
In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice.
— CS Lewis
Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.
— Peter Kreeft
We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.
— CS Lewis
Never judge a philosophy by its abuse.
— St. Augustine