Quotes about Moral Principles

The same president who has insisted that core moralism drives him has brought America to its lowest moral standing in history.

What you stand for is what makes you stand out, not your standing. So, I never worry about my standing, only my stand.

Few words in any language carry such a load of meaning as 'honor.' It is an old word, unchanged even in its spelling from classical Latin to modern English. Spoken or written, it does not seem to require much explanation; most people think they know what it means.

I think integrity is underrated.

Don't you think that any secret course is an unworthy one?

Never give a sucker an even break, but don't cheat a friend.

I understand now that you cannot fight for a noble cause with heinous actions.

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

I have been offered obscene amounts to do commercials and stage shows abroad, but as a matter of principle, I am against them.

I've always said it's easier for bands to make a hard stance - like, we don't do commercials or whatever, blah blah blah - when you've sold billions of records. It's super-easy to be righteous when you're rich.

There are things you stand up for because it's right.

We often think our legacy will be our achievements. But often our legacy will be whether we set a moral standard.

As a gambler, I hold myself to an especially high standard of honor, and it disgusts me when people try to cheat at games.

What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.

I have high standards I hold myself to, besides Christianity.

Our duty was to declare God's standards to the world: no adultery, no fornication, no gays, no idolatry.

Should there be double standards in the world? Maybe.

Remember: sin, even if legalized by man, is still sin in the eyes of God.

Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai... but he has never improved on God's law.

A lie is the abandonment and, as it were, the annihilation of the dignity by man.

T]he sacred sense of right and the reverence for the law, which it is difficult to destroy in the minds of the multitude, it is still more difficult to reproduce.

the intention of every man acting according to virtue is to follow the rule of reason, wherefore the intention of all the virtues is directed to the same end, so that all the virtues are connected together in the right reason of things to be done, viz. prudence,

I do not feel that we should set up people as "models"; rather actions, thoughts, principles.

What good are laws if they're not human?