In war, the moral is to the physical as three is to one.

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“In any case fashions of one generation, moral or physical, are scarcely at all assessable in terms of another. They cannot be properly equated.”

— Anthony Powell

Ability may get you to the top, nut it takes chracter to keep you there - mental, moral, and physical.

— John Wooden

“The struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical, but it…

— Howard Zinn

Swimming has its educational value - mental, moral, and physical - in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power…

— Robert Baden-Powell

“To the untutored sage, the concentration of population was the prolific mother of all evils, moral no less than physical. He argued that food…

— Charles Alexander (Ohiyesa) Eastman

To sacrifice the moral to the physical, as is done in these days, is to sacrifice reality for a shadow.

— African Spir

“War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to “a war against” whatever-it-is, you divide the…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to “a war against” whatever-it-is, you divide the…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“The American intellectuals, in their preoccupation with reality, seem to have forgotten that the real enemy is War rather than imperial Germany. There is…

— Randolph Bourne

“Despite shared language, ethnicity, and culture, alliances nurtured deep, long-standing hostilities toward one another, the original source of which was often unknown. They had…

— Mitchell Zuckoff

The manner in which the hours of freedom are spent determines, no less than labor and war, the moral worth of a nation.

— Maurice Maeterlinck

Every government, left or right, always engages in moral crusades. What else are they supposed to do? Especially when they make war; any war…

— Richard Rorty

Nothing is more private than a woman's body; it is her physical, emotional, and moral citadel. She cannot be free at all if she…

— Lewis B. Smedes