The dropping of bombs on people – isn’t that terrorism?

Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.

This is not Johnson’s war. This is America’s war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.

It’s important that we invest in America – literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can’t let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.

Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

A siege is an act of war.

Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.

You are twice as likely to be struck by lightning as you around to be affected by a terrorist event in the United States.

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

Basically, Islamic State is a combined al Qaeda and Lebanese Hezbollah on steroids, destabilizing the region, dissolving borders/changing the political geography in the Mid-east, and hardening political positions that make Mid-east peace-building more remote by the day.

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

States are not moral agents.

As we know, while our species remains alive, everybody has the sacred duty to be optimistic. Ethically, any other behaviour wouldn’t be admissible.

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

I do not pilfer victory.

I don’t believe in killing whatever the reason!

A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas.

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

The humanists‘ replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you’ll either save yourself or you’ll be immortal. Of course, that’s a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there’s no ethical progress whatsoever.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

Organized murder is war, and though we demonstrate against a particular war, the nuclear, or any other kind of war, we have never demonstrated against war.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.

Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it’s again not people who are intrinsically evil.

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?

As strong as the United States is, we can’t deal with terrorism alone.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

You can’t make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can’t make peace without Syria.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

The United States is a violent military state. It’s been involved in military action all over the place.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.