Quotes about Moral Principles

Riders are not criminals.

Righteousness is on our side.

When I was in high school, I had a notebook that I filled up with rules about lying. It must have been a hundred pages long - one hundred pages of rules about lying!

Vos vestros servate, meos mihi linquite mores."

Am prea pu?in? via?? ca s?-mi pot îng?dui a o mânji prin compromisuri...

I have a sensible set of values that tell me to never lie.

He operated by Old World rules, the blurring of right and wrong into whatever you could get away with;

You don't need to wear a patch on your arm to have honor.

En cuestiones de estilo, nade con la corriente", dicen que aconsejaba Thomas Jefferson, pero "en cuestiones de principios, sea sólido como una roca",

It was glorious to acquire a throne by justice, yet more glorious to prefer justice before a throne; the same virtue which made the one appear worthy of regal power exalted the other to the disregard of it.

We renounce the idea of mutilating the individual in the name of any ideal whatsoever. All we reserve to ourselves is the frank expression of our sympathies and antipathies towards what seems to us good or bad.

Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live.

Right is right and wrong is wrong. And you can't wait until something nasty and horrible happens to then claim it's wrong, while you've catered the support of certain groups for votes or other reasons.

America does not want vulgarity and sexual exploitation to be our values and we do not want the world to think those are our standards. We want to be a better nation and a better people, with better standards.

My concern is that we live in an economy in which stabbing someone and waiting for them to complain before we remove the knife has become the normal way of doing business. When did we lose sight of the fact that it's not nice to stab people in the first place?

Never bet on baseball.

Corporate executives and business owners need to realize that there can be no compromise when it comes to ethics, and there are no easy shortcuts to success. Ethics need to be carefully sown into the fabric of their companies.

I don't care who you are, if you don't stand opposed to immoral issues, then you will suffer.

Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.

But do not be servile; never be a flunkey; and above all things avoid the intellectual prostitution which is the vice of our times in many trades and most professions. I mean by this the being a mere hired apologist for and defender of immorality, graft, dishonesty, or vice in any form. The intellectual prostitute may rise in the service, but he is a lost soul.

The existence of strict moral principles has invariably signified that the biological, and specifically the sexual needs of man were not being satisfied. Every moral regulation is in itself sex-negating, and all compulsory morality is life-negating.

it's that everyone has a price.

People who change their values, their ethics, are not trustworthy and should be avoided.

I am Jurgen. And I deal fairly with all women, and raise my staff against none save in the way of kindness.