Quotes about Moral Principles

It would be enough if more of us would simply compare our own principles, our own vision of life and nature, whether secular or religious or somewhere in between, wit the reality of how animals are actually treated, often in our name. If such things cannot be justified, if the great majority of us find them reprehensible and wrong and unworthy of humanity, then why on earth are they all permitted? Why do we tolerate them, in our lives and in our laws?

You've got to be kind..." "I'm not." "You've got to have some pity." "I haven't." "A good man knows how to forgive." "I don't." "You wouldn't want me to think that you're selfish." "I am.

You have been paying blackmail, not for your vices, but for your virtues.

All that which is proper to the life of a rational being is the good; all that which destroys it is the evil.

Man's motive power is his moral code.

The theme is the evil of divorcing ideals from life.

Debo recordarte también que el derecho a la vida es la fuente de la que manan todos los derechos, incluido el derecho de propiedad.

Every political system is based on some code of ethics.

A "compromise" does not consist of doing something one dislikes, but of doing something one knows to be evil.

Consequences are governed by principles, and behavior is governed by values, therefore, value principles!

We are free to choose our actions, based on our knowledge of correct principles, but we are not free to choose the consequences of those actions. Remember, "If you pick up one end of the stick, you pick up the other.

What you want to be (character) and to do (contributions and achievements) and on the values or principles upon which being and doing are based… never compromise with honesty

Stephen R. Covey

Integrity includes but goes beyond honesty.

Cecil B. DeMille observed of the principles contained in his monumental movie, The Ten Commandments, "It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.

But when it comes to solving problems, one of the best ways to start is by putting away your moral compass.

morality represents the way we would like the world to work and economics represents how it actually does work

The Israelites assemble at Mount Sinai and hear the Ten Commandments, the great moral code that outlaws engraved images and the coveting of livestock but gives a pass to slavery, rape, torture, mutilation, and genocide of neighboring tribes.

respect for the rules, except when following those rules means disregarding or ignoring or remaining blind to an even higher moral principle

Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.

The essence of conservative ideology is its being anchored in the divine order of things.

Where else are you going to get morality from, is what I say? Peace is just piggishness, it takes war to establish order.

in a people whose moral code is so lax, so little is wrong.

Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.