Quotes about Moral Principles

By disobeying immoral orders, that individual preserves the institution's highest rank - dignity.

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

Better to fail at doing the right thing than to succeed at doing the wrong thing.

Do not do that which you would not have known.

I principi morali non provengono dallo Stato e della società. La moralità riguarda questioni più serie che valutano i nostri pensieri, parole e azioni paragonandoli ai principi universali che sono validi a prescindere da tempo e luogo.

She'd been taught all her life not to attack humans, but knocking them unconscious with tranquilizer guns was more of a gray area.

Never take the easy way out if it means being dishonest or untruthful

Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?

33] Consider at what price you sell your integrity; but please, for God's sake, don't sell it cheap.

Life offers more than one option for doing the right thing.

Not faith but moral behavior is the essence of all religion.

Não concebo por que misturam, nesse caso, considerações políticas e paixões partidárias. Ele é superior a tudo isso, pois que é uma questão moral.

A moral man is essentially dumbfounded when confronted by a man who is amoral—everything the latter does is met with a certain disbelief.

The laws given on Mount Sinai for the government of man and woman were equal; the precepts of Jesus make no distinction.

Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose!

English politics is so much more concerned with the proprieties than with defending dogmas.

The Catholic teaching against murder, for example, is largely the same as our secular laws. But as a law, it obviously has a secular rationale at least as strong as its religious rationale.

Walpole sniffed, "to prostitute his character and authenticate his hypocrisy.

Occasionally the ideals seemed more honored in the breach than in the observance, but in times of moral quandary a conscientious officer could anchor himself with a few simple questions: Is it good for the troops? Is it good for the country? Is it honorable?

Your morality is determined by your conscience and mine is determined by my conscience.

A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.

You must question a code of ethics that never impedes your progress.

In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.

No one who follows their conscience ever does wrong, Your Eminence. The consequences may not turn out as we intend; it may prove in time that we made a mistake. But that is not the same as being wrong. The only guide to a person's actions can ever be their conscience, for it is in our conscience that we most clearly hear the voice of God.