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Quotes about Moral Principles

Those opposed to abortion cannot simply invoke God's will-they have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths.
~ Barack Obama
The great thing about America is you can live according to your faith. If you're faith says don't use birth control then you don't use it.
~ Ted Cruz
It's easy to maintain your integrity when no one is offering to buy it out.
~ Marc Maron
You do not have to be religious to be spiritual and moral.
~ Toni Sorenson
I strongly believe in my own rights and wrongs and impose them on myself and my family.
~ Nita Ambani
When what we want to do and what we ought to do are two different things, character is built in the choice we make
~ Unknown
Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence to honor, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons for living
~ Juvenal
I know that a life has high value, but our rights, our independence,our honour have a higher value than life
~ Unknown
You can go with the flow and follow trends when it comes to superficial issues, such as style, but when it comes to moral issues, you should not be swayed by popular opinion.
~ Unknown
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~ Marcia Clark
My faith has been the driving thing of my life. I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values.
~ Marian Wright Edelman
If you want to have a better and happy life, know your own ethics, build a sense of right and wrong for yourself looking at all the moral questions in life and hold on to your integrity.
~ Unknown
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. - William Shakespeare Richard III (Act I, scene ii) Protection is not a principle but an expedient. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881
~ Martina Cole
Ética» deriva del griego êthos, una palabra relacionada con nuestra idea de carácter; «moralidad» procede del latín moralis, que tenía que ver con hábitos y costumbres.
~ Massimo Pigliucci
Nothing can be traded if the price is compromising of your character.
~ Massimo Pigliucci
There are two crucial ideas underlying Stoicism, and they each correspond to one major promise the philosophy holds for its practitioners. The first crucial idea is that life is fundamentally about being a morally good person, which is achieved through the continuous practice of four cardinal virtues. The second idea is the so-called dichotomy of control, the notion that some things are "up to us," as the Stoics say, and other things are not.
~ Massimo Pigliucci
What people do in the name of religion is not necessarily religious. It often has baser reasons behind it.
~ Matthew Reilly
Reforms will come as all great reforms have always come in ridding us of evils against both man and animal--not as we change our moral principles but as we discern and accept the implications of principles already held.
~ Matthew Scully
No one can define or measure justice, democracy, security, freedom, truth, or love. No one can define or measure any value. But if no one speaks up for them, if systems aren't designed to produce them, if we don't speak about them and point toward their presence or absence, they will cease to exist.
~ Unknown
Losing honour or losing everything, it is all the same thing in the realm of the good people.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
T]he commitment to a framework neutral among ends can be seen as a kind of value [...] but its value consists precisely in its refusal to affirm a preferred way of life or conception of the good.
~ Michael J. Sandel
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~ Michael J. Sandel
Don't ever, for any reason, do anything, to anyone, for any reason, ever, no matter what, no matter where, or who, or who you are with, or where you are going, or where you've been, ever, for any reason whatsoever.
~ Michael Scott
I mean if those moral principles are out there and God is just telling us what it is, then why do we need the middleman? Just tell us the reasons why it's wrong and okay. And if it's just because God said it what if he didn't say murder was wrong, would that make it right? No, it would still be wrong.
~ Michael Shermer