Quotes about Moral Principles

Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

Ma come si può vivere solo per se stessi?" domandò Pierre accalorandosi. "E tuo figlio, tua sorella, tuo padre?" "Ma loro sono pur sempre me stesso, loro non sono gli altri," rispose il principe Andrej. "Gli altri, invece, le prochain, come lo chiami tu, come lo chiama la principessina Mar'ja, sono la fonte principale dell'errore e del male.

All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy - but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that's how I am guided.

No leader will fight for values, for principles, if their government is a value-free vacuum. Moral relativism is morally wrong.

All I can go on is my own value system.

Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am.

I very much believe in values-based leadership and that the values that I believe in and try to govern by are transcendent values.

True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.

Discipline gives standards and values to live by, a basis for morality.

When you are led by values, it doesn't cost your business, it helps your business.

I am not the least bit religious, but at least I stick up for the good work of religion and the cascade of benefits that come from religion.

Compromise on ethical conduct is not an option.

There has to be some kind of order and some moral code. I don't know how people can function without a belief in a deity.

Navajos did not kill with cold-blooded premeditation. Nor did they kill for profit. To do so violated the scale of values of The People. Beyond meeting simple immediate needs, the Navajo Way placed little worth on property. In fact, being richer than one's clansmen carried with it a social stigma. It was unnatural, and therefore suspicious.

We must distinguish better than some of our predecessors between desirable ends and unacceptable means.

I have noticed that some old men lose their sense of honour, and will cheerfully avow the strangest acts.

A Warrior knows that the ends do not justify the means. Because there are no ends, there are only means...

Do they believe their cause so just that they are above and beyond the truth?

I've never been involved with anyone who's set out to hurt people, to break legs. It is a bit of a dying art

The laws of art are eternal and don't change at all, as the moral laws don't change in human beings.

We have a strong moral system here, based on family values.

I don't like mixing up moralities with mathematics.

Better a Zero than a Nero.