Quotes About Morality

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

I get angry at a principle, not a person.

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

The principle of acting in good faith is at the heart of decent work.

Rise above principle and do what's right.

Retributive justice did not arise from any Christian principle; almost every pre-Christian society dealt with wrongdoers by causing them pain.

Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no principle, however immaculate, that has not had its compromising manipulator.

I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.

Let me tell you, if you're ever making a decision and the principle reason you'll do it is because of money, then it is absolutely the incorrect decision.

It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.

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

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

Openness, respect, integrity - these are principles that need to underpin pretty much every other decision that you make.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

There's more than one way to get to the goal that you want to get to, but once you compromise your own principles, then you're lost. You're really lost.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

Its easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.

At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't mean that you can't think of overarching ethical principles you would want people to follow in all kinds of places.

I act on my principles, whether they're popular or not.

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.

It is deeply against my principles to work on any project that I think is to weaponize AI.

You don't have to be a Christian to work at Chick-fil-A, but we ask you to base your business on biblical principles because they work.