Adages Quote by Ben Harper

A true war story is never moral.

— Tim O'Brien

Stories can bring alive the moral universe in a very vivid, useful, engaging way.

— Morris Gleitzman

Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“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

“A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men…

— Tim O'Brien

“In the midst of your enemies, one should not lose his morality. Morality is what separates us from our enemy. Morals keep us from…

— Trenton Quinn

A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate…

— O. Henry

“When the onward rush of a powerful spirit sweeps a weaker one to its destruction, the commonplaces of the moral judgement are better left…

— Lytton Strachey

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”

— Anonymous

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”

— Theodore Parker

“There is no brutality and cruelty in battles and wars; in reality only the outcome matters.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte