Morally, the world is both better and worse than it was. We are worse off than in the middle ages, or the 17th and 18th centuries, in that we have the atomic menace.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Nuclear weapons are intrinsically neither moral nor immoral, though they are more prone to immoral use than most weapons.
Are we prepared to tolerate a world in which countries which care about morality lay down their nuclear weapons, leaving others to threaten the rest of the world or hold it to ransom?
If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.
What is more immoral than war?
A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
Morality in its noblest forms remains inexplicable unless one takes into account that power of growth in the human soul which has led generation after generation from lower religious and ethical standards to higher ones which often clash with worldly advantages.
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.
Life is not better and more moral than it was in the '50s. It's just the same.