Quotes about Moral Principles

difference between sociology and morality. Sociology is descriptive; morality is prescriptive.

What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.

valores certamente não são a resposta para o relativismo moral. Muito pelo contrário, a mera discussão sobre valores já favorece o relativismo moral.

Con lo expuesto podemos concluir que hay dos razas de hombres en el mundo, solo dos: la de los hombres decentes y la de los indecentes. Ambas se mezclan en todas partes y en todas las capas sociales. Ningún grupo social se compone exclusivamente de hombres decentes o indecentes. En este sentido, ningún grupo es de «pura raza», y por ello había entre los guardias personas decentes.

Let no man turn aside, even so slightly, from the broad path of honor, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means. Those that cannot, are bad; and may be counted so at once, and left alone.

We have a special name, here, for a certain kind of failure to defer to the greater good—for putting a personal sense of doing right above any objective measure of the outcome. It's called 'moral vanity'.

Moral principles regarding natural selection seemed to be something they had left on the floor of what was now Kamino's planetwide ocean, which perhaps explained why they were no more reluctant about providing game animals for Sojourn than they were about supplying shovel-handed clones to work in the mines of inhospitable Subterrel. Damask

Is it important to be right or is it important to do what's right? That's one of the hardest lessons to learn.

I don't sleep with happily married men.

Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.

I came from a socially deprived background when I was 15, 16 years old, but one thing I knew was one - you don't abuse a policeman, and two - you don't steal things.

On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarreling, fighting, burning and torturing one another, for abstractions unintelligible to themselves and to all others, and absolutely beyond the comprehension of the human mind.

Man cannot make principles, he can only discover them.

convictions and beliefs! .. what do they have to do with religion!

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

In his dealings with the world, the gentleman is not invariably for or against anything. He is on the side of what is moral.

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

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

The Master was entirely free of four faults: arbitrariness, inflexibility, rigidity, and selfishness.

No hay criterio definitivo que pueda demostrar la bondad o maldad de un juicio ético. Que

Where there is no vital community to hold up precious ethical and religious ideals, there can be no coming to a moral commitment—only personal accomplishment is applauded.

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.