Quotes about Moral Principles

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.

Republics exist as long as the people "adhere to principles and virtue.

principles come and go, but . . . human souls are immortal, and you should therefore throw in your lot with the greater part.

Neapg?žami ir mor?les principi, nevis zin?tniski fakti.

I follow the Law—the Most Excellent Law.

You must not obey a majority, no matter how large, if it opposes your principles and opinions.' He said this to each new volunteer and repeated it over and over to him, until it was engraved on his mind. 'The largest majority is often only an organized mob whose noise can no more change the false into the true than it can change black into white or night into day. And a minority, conscious of its rights, if those rights are based on moral principles, will sooner or later become a just majority.

On principle' a man can do anything, take part in anything and himself remain inhuman and indeterminate. 'On principle' a man may interest himself in the founding of a brothel, and the same man can 'on principle' assist in the publication of a new Hymn book because it is supposed to be the great need of the times. But it would be as unjustifiable to conclude from the first fact that he was debauched as it would, perhaps, be to conclude from the second that he read or sang hymns.

No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.

A legendary horse is praised not for its strength, but for its Integrity.

Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Honesty Any kind of lasting success is rooted in honesty.

We admire people who oppose the regime in totalitarian country and think they have courage or a strong moral sense or have remained true to their principles and the like. We may also smile at their naïveté, thinking, Don't they realise that their words are of no use at all against this oppressive power? That they will hath to pay dearly for their protest?

In war, you seize all the high ground you can.' He lifted the egg to his lips, looking small between his big finger and thumb. 'Except the moral kind.' And he sucked the insides out through the hole. 'That ain't worth shit.

Killing ain't no good thing, son, unless it's to eat or protect yourself. And you ought never to delight in it.

Early Christianity, like Roman-era philosophical traditions, laid emphasis on everyday behavior, about how to live your life.

There is but one law for all, namely, that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity -- the law of nature, and of nations.

The best philosophy doesn't just come up with a few new facts that we can simply add yo our stock of information, or a few new maxims to extend our list of dos and don'ts, but embodies a picture of the world and/or a set of values.

Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one.

'No means no' is puritanism.

But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.

You follow what you think is right. There are lines that I won't cross.

My deepest desire is to do the thing that is first and foremost just.

Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience.

I'm a law-and-order girl: I like people who do the right thing.

I like structure, and I like discipline and people doing the right thing.