Quotes about Moral Principles

If we succeed, it will not be because of what we have, but it will be because of what we are; not because of what we own, but, rather because of what we believe.

Jamie, when the stakes are high, I never cheat. I consider myself too important to do that.

where there is no sound reason, there can be no real virtue.

What is immoral to do is immoral to threaten.

The most important extra-curricular lesson we learned,—and we learned it properly,—was summed up in Chief Justice Jay's dictum that "justice is always the same, whether it be due from one man to a million, or from a million to one man." We learned this, not by precept, but by example, which is the best way to learn such lessons. In

God has given us a conscience superior to all law," said Wendell Phillips. The individual's conscience and the Golden Rule top any written law. There is such a thing as righteous lawbreaking.

también el mundo hace sus leyes, que prescriben el bien y el mal; también tiene su evangelio, un evangelio de soberbia y de odio; y no quiere que se diga que el amor por la vida es una razón para transgredir sus mandamientos. No lo quiere; y es obedecido.

In the long run principles are just more important than expediency.

No worthy end can ever really be accomplished with unworthy means.

There are ways of fighting for your interests. I never do something in business that I wouldn't do in life.

Men's moral principles are weak enough without their being made subordinate to selfishness; and their selfishness is quite active enough, without any such effort as Christianity makes to constitute it the mainspring of all their conduct.

No man has a right to do what he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.

My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct.

I don't need others to validate my good conduct.

I have always lived according to my conscience, and my past is clean.

If you only get money, but you don't care about a thing, right or wrong, you cannot last. That cannot sustain you for the future.

Good ends will not justify evil actions. What

Moral codes are useful only when we have descended to needing them.

If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they may alter the mode and application, but have no power over the substance of original justice.

Separation of church and state cannot mean an absolute separation between moral principles and political power.

When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.

I'm just not going to do it so that we can say that we've done it. And I'm not going to do it if the first thing you say afterwards is 'please don't tell anyone' or 'let's forget it ever happened'. If you have to keep something secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place!

Once you give up your integrity, everything else is a piece of cake. —J. R. Ewing