Quotes about Moral Principles

You have to follow your moral compass: it's a good guide of telling you what is right and wrong.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashion.

And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be forced to create a new official faith and new moral principles which will be binding on its citizens.

Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.

A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.

All sober inquirers after truth, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, have declared that the happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.

Never compromise a principle or relinquish a vital truth.

Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.

The great laws of the moral world do not vary, however different, under different dispensations, may be the authoritative enunciation of truth, or the means of propagating and defending it.

When you rely on the principles of truth, they take you far.

A man got to have a code. - Omar Little

She's got manners, but what has she got in the way of morals?" "Oh," said Luker blithely, "she and I don't have any morals. We have to get along with a scruple or two." "I

You can't regulate integrity

we will occupy a right and wonderful world only when God's values occupy our lives.

And if he were really to do good he would have needed in addition to his principles, a heart capable of violating them - a heart which knows only of particular not of general cases and which achieves greatness in little actions.

While stealing was a death penalty offense in the camps, as a husband and father, Billy Tang had no doubts that there were certain things worth dying for.

My father believed that, in understanding and in knowledge of right and wrong and in many other things, women are men's equals and I am entirely of his opinion.

In all religions, as in all legal systems. people find ways to skirt the rules. We obey the letter of the law without honoring its spirit, and then reassure ourselves of our righteousness.

Going after 'the bad guy' has not been a real issue for me.

One must not cheat anybody, not even the world of one's triumph.

Never out of shame or to win favor

I think that we should be men first and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.