Quotes about Moral Principles

It makes people believe if we just get back to those principles, like police brutalising and jailing homosexuals, we can be good once again.

As noted previously, a principle of moral good is this: if other persons are involved in an action, then always act with their good in mind, and never act in a way that it leads to their loss or suffering (through force or fraud).

I'm not sure what a good person is, exactly. On the one hand, it could be someone who always play by the rules. But can someone follow the rules and still be a real jerk? In fact, some of the biggest idiots I know are people who follow the rules, usually because they make you feel like crap when you don't.

Our society had become antagonistic and biased against the principled and moral members of society.

A person who has no standard to live by other than the culture of the moment is a person whose principles might as well come from the latest public opinion polls.

Ethics really isn't about agreeing to a set of principles. It's about changing the way you act.

We've had enough of pragmatists and self-seeking risk-takers. We need people of character.

Just say no to pillaging.

A good end cannot sanctify evil means, nor must we ever do evil that good may come of it.

The only basis for genuine human rights and dignity is a fully biblical worldview.

No one is a consistent moral relativist.

When Christians argue ethical issues in the public square, they are not seeking to impose their values on everyone else, as they are often accused of doing. They are not seeking power and control for themselves. Instead they are working to protect human rights in ways that benefit everyone.

When your principles seem to be demanding suicide, clearly it's time to check your premises.

The cultured man has the obligation to be intolerant.

De muchas cosas me pueden culpar mis enemigos. Pero de dos, jamás: de ser ladrón o maricón"[40

This had become a mantra for Isaac. If you lose a fortune, you can always earn another, he pointed out. But if you lose your good name, you can never get it back.

Devi chuckled a bit. "Money is nice," she said, her eyes glittering. "But the world is full of things that people would never sell. Favors and obligation are worth far, far more.

Money is nice, but the world is full of things that people would never sell. Favors and obligation are worth far, far more.

Ah, qué triste resultaba para un hombre cabal verse obligado a seguir caminos tan sinuosos! ¡Qué triste manchar de aquel modo tan sórdido lo más valioso que el hombree posee, su propio honor!

Hear now, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances I am teaching you to follow, so that you may live and may enter and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you.

This is the law that Moses set before the Israelites.

You shall not steal.

Blessed are those who uphold justice, who practice righteousness at all times.

It is surely not good to punish the innocent or to flog a noble for his honesty.