Quotes about Moral Principles

Aun así, él no sabía hacer las cosas de otra manera; eso formaba parte de un código ético personal, breve pero inflexible, que lo había acompañado a lo largo de toda su vida adulta y que podía resumirse en una frase: «Haz el trabajo y hazlo bien.»

While he values ethics he understands that apart from God moral principles are simply changing conventions and today's vices can become tomorrow's virtues.

As Emerson said: 'Character is higher than intellect.

Burr, "His manner was patronizing. . . . As he revealed himself to my moral sense, I saw he was destitute of any fixed principles.

You can't get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.

We have got nowadays so that we divide lies into white lies and black lies, society lies and business lies, etc. The Word of God knows no such letting-down of the standard.

I had a very moral upbringing, and spiritual in a sort of not very specific way.

Sans culture morale, aucune chance pour les hommes.

The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition.

Good ends, as I have frequently to point out, can be achieved only by the employment of appropriate means. The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.

There are so many ways of falling off the high moral ground you've carefully built up for yourself. Moral ground is like that—slippery at the edges.

There can be as many wrong reasons to do the right thing as there are stars in the sky. There might even be more than one legitimate right reason. But there is never a right reason to do the wrong thing. Not ever.

Propaganda (things to be propagated) is inescapable. It is not *whether* certain values will be propagated, but rather, *which* values will be propagated.

immoral cannot be made moral through the use of secret law. "I believe in the principle declared at Nuremberg in 1945: Individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience.

Integrity is doing the right thing, even if nobody is watching.

Integrity is doing the right thing, even if no one is watching.

And it was most important to do what one knew was right, for otherwise the day might come when one could no longer tell the difference between right and wrong.

It's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.

Can you be a progressive if you're anti-immigrant but pro-choice? No!

Promoting and protecting human rights internationally is not just a matter of principle or morality - doing so also serves our national security interests.

Just like two and two always add up to four, kindness and forgiveness is always right, hate and revenge is always wrong. It's a fail-proof system; if you just stick to that one simple rule, why, you couldn't make a mistake if you tried.

la ética es proactiva, es decir busca lo bueno y no sólo pretende evitar lo malo: a partir de principios morales, proyecta directrices futuras y transforma la convivencia y la colaboración dentro de la empresa, innovando hacia lo mejor y no solo prohibiendo lo evidentemente peor.

I firmly believe in the sanctity of life.

Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society.