Quotes about Moral Principles

It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character.

There are those men who say to repay evil with kindness. But I say, how then are we to repay kindness? Repay kindness with kindness, but repay evil with justice.

More and more, the pressing human dilemma: how to walk a clean path between obscenities. Bernice

Never, ever cheat, especially yourself, even if you are absolutely, positively sure that you can get away with it.

I do like crossing moral boundaries.

Keep in mind that right and wrong are not matters of opinion. They are principles we must discover and apply. They are laws of biology for intelligent species

A man's worth isn't measured by a bank register or diploma... It's about integrity

Any man who would take money two ways would take it three ways just as quickly.

Do You Have a PROBLEM? Nothing is illegal—it isn't what you do; it's the way that you do it.

But does Man have any "right" to spread through the universe? Man is what he is, a wild animal with the will to survive, and (so far) the ability, against all competition. Unless one accepts that, anything one says about morals, war, politics—you name it—is nonsense. Correct morals arise from knowing what Man is—not what do-gooders

She said, "Oh, Studly." I could see her smile. "The law is not about justice. You know that.

Dodd was able to point out that no one would have crucified an itinerant preacher who went around encouraging people with general moral principles.

When had doing the right thing stopped being the automatic option and become something that had to be worked at instead?

Religion is behavior and not mere belief.

I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man.

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.

That religion and that nation will be blotted out of the face of the earth which pins its faith on injustice, untruth or violence.

All true religion must stand on true morality.

The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.

while religion is ethical, it by no means follows that ethics is religion.

Good taste is his religion, his morality, his standard, and his test.

The system is religion, the law is spirituality. Take your pick.

Respect gods before demigods, heroes before men, and first among men your parents; but respect yourself most of all.

We cannot respect something just because millions or billions believe in it! We can respect something only if it is complying with the high intelligence and ethics!