Quotes About Morality

We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles.

The more you talk about - and live by - your principles, the harder it will be for others to treat you in a morally ambiguous manner.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.

One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.

So I think ethics is the broader thing that's less focused on prohibitions and is more perhaps looking at principles and questions and ideas about how to live your life.

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.

Throughout my career, I have lived by the principles of personal honor and professional integrity.

I should not deal with things that aren't founded on ethical principles, because that's not who I am as a human being.

I'm pretty well grounded in Christian principles.

I'm not gonna change my principles. I'm not gonna change anything just to make money.

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.

The human's being right to do as he pleases without interfering with someone else's rights is a formula defining rights prior to social legislation.

More important than your obligation to follow your conscience, or at least prior to it, is your obligation to form your conscience correctly.

I prefer a prison full of criminals than a graveyard full of innocent people.

He who sells what isn't his'n, Must buy it back or go to prison.

We Americans have a sense of ourselves as a moral people. We have led the way in the fight for human rights in the world. Mistreating prisoners makes the world see our moral claims as hypocrisy.

Really what it gets down to is that my idea of the American life, the American dream, whatever, is that I can do what I wish in the privacy of my own home. And as long as I'm not hurting anyone, no one has a right to know what I do. The main thing that I have to hide is that I don't have anything to hide.

Where is the expectation of privacy in the commission of a crime?

Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make it sacred.

I'm a private guy, and you don't want to be out there preaching to people. But faith leads you in the decisions you make. You don't always pick the right path, but it's there in your conscience.

It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed.

When I came to faith, I was on pro-choice boards, and I dropped off of those because you couldn't read the Bible and be pro-choice.

If you're so pro-life, do me a favour: don't lock arms and block medical clinics. If you're so pro-life, lock arms and block cemeteries.