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Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force. — George Orwell

The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint. — Henry Kissinger

You ever read Thucydides? I'll boil him down for you into one easy moral: intergenerational civil war is a very bad thing. — Adrian McKinty

War makes its own morals. — Margaret Bourke-White

Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these factors is moral influence. — Sun Tzu

War is indefensible on every grounds, military and economic and diplomatic and also on moral. — Eugene McCarthy

In war the moral is to the material as three to one. Napoleon — George F. Will

The moral arguments against war are irrefutable. As the musician Edwin Starr put it, War. Hunh! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing. — Steven Pinker

War is a dangerous teacher and physical victory leads often to a moral defeat. — Sri Aurobindo

There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent people for political reasons. — Tony Benn

The consummate leader cultivates the moral law, and strictly adheres to method and discipline; thus it is in his power to control success. — Sun Tzu

In war, the moral element and public opinion are half the battle. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Our moral imperative is to work with all our powers for that day when the children of the world grow up without the fear of nuclear war. — Ronald Reagan

After all, you can't really blame the Waffen S.S. for doing what comes naturally. But a funny thing happened on the way to the moral high ground. — Garth Ennis

In war, moral factors acount for three quarters of the whole; relative material strength accounts for only one quarter. — Napoleon Bonaparte

To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason — H.L. Mencken

I have no more cheap morals to draw from all this death. — Judith Rascoe

Once he had drawn first blood, his war against the property of the state lost all its moral resonance. — Pat Conroy

The moral is obvious it is that great armaments lead inevitably to war. — Edward Dunlop

A phased decision can avoid there being a key moment when the moral issue about killing civilians has to be confronted. — Jonathan Glover

A true war story is never moral. — Tim O'Brien

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination. — Bill Moyers

Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination. — Adrienne Rich

More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life ... — Barbara Tuchman

It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world. — John Bartholomew Gough

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless. — Chester Nimitz

In war, the moral is to the physical as ten to one. — Napoleon Bonaparte

The search for a moral equivalent of war continues to define American liberalism to this day. — Jonah Goldberg

If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political. — Stephen Bayley

Winning the war on terrorism will also require a level of moral clarity that can provide a vision for struggling people and nations everywhere. — Adam Schiff

Genocide is the responsibility of the entire world. — Ann Clwyd

In the Church he (Lincoln) saw people who, though they hated war as much as the editors did, saw with clarity what the moral alternative was. — Elton Trueblood

Whenever "A" attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon "B," "A" is most likely a scoundrel. — H.L. Mencken