Quotes about Moral Principles

The end did not justify the means, but justifiable means that brought about a fair and necessary conclusion were not to be dismissed.

I suppose the stern and the cruel ones rule the world. If so, I shall be content to try to live each day within the limits of my conscience and let great plaudits go to those who are willing to pay the price for it."7

Morals aren't just for when it's easy, Anita. They aren't morals if you throw them aside every time it's convenient.

And morality is nothing if it is merely a form of good behavior.

If there is no absolute by which to judge society, society is absolute.

Right living is a way to right thinking.

ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right. [...] I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.

Frequently we imagine that we are behaving in a particular way because such behaviour accords with some abstract, lofty code of moral principles, when in reality all we are doing is obeying a deeply ingrained and long 'forgotten' set of purely imitative impressions.

It is easy to decide between right and wrong but it is difficult to decide between what is right and what is more right

An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life. [Lat., Honesta mors turpi vita potior.]

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

To live a life of honesty and integrity is a responsibility of every decent person.

Notice, there is a fundamental difference between providing a biological explanation of why we are inclined to accept a given moral principle and showing that we should accept it. If the ultimate explanation is biological, it is far from obvious that such principles truly obligate us to follow them.

The Ten Commandments are the lowest possible standard of humane living.

Those who follow a code are often respected and held in high esteem

Dad was a very, very principled man, and he hated any kind of story where the baddies get away with it.

We do not owe allegiance to any candidate because they share our party or our color, but because they share our principles and our conscience.

A family film is a very particular and explicit form. Family films typically include adult principles that are moral, but they should be as intelligent, funny, and intriguing as any other film.

My mum's got morals and principles, and I've been brought up with those ideas and beliefs.

I was raised with moral principles that would not be shaken in hard times. And mentorship is huge - it's really important to be around people who have been where you've been, people you look up to and who will keep you strong.

I'm 100% pro-life.

I wanted to do work that elevated. Otherwise, it's cheap funny. It's dirty funny. It's degrading funny.

I would not allow CIA to undertake activity that is immoral, even if it is technically legal.

I cut my teeth on religious liberty issues.