“For every moral principle, there’s an equal and opposite government program” — Erne Lewis Copy Share Image
For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
A moral principle in genetic testing is that it should always be done with the consent of the individual. No one wants… — Arthur Caplan Copy Share Image
Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Philosophers and theologians have yet to learn that a physical fact is as sacred as a moral principle. Our own nature demands… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
Non-cooperation in military matters should be an essential moral principle for all true scientists ... — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Us atheist people, we believe we have to act properly and honestly for a moral principle and not because we expect an… — Margherita Hack Copy Share Image
By ethical argument and moral principle the greatest crimes are eventually shown to have been necessary, and, in fact, a signal benefit… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
“When a heroine is satisfied that she has exercised judgement with clear vision, moral principle,and common sense, she need not acquiesce to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There can be no truly moral choice unless that choice is made in freedom; similarly, there can be no really firmly grounded… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
“It's a general moral principle that the more power you have over someone, the greater your duty to use that power benevolently.… — Rick Hanson Copy Share Image
There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Sound moral principle is the only sure evidence of strength, the only firm foundation of greatness and perpetuity. Where this is lacking,… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
In my mind of course natural disaster like tsunami, and these things, also I think indirectly may relate to human behavior. But… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
As the light of morning strikes now one peak and then another, some being illuminated while others are in the shadow, so… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
Equality is not the empirical claim that all groups of humans are interchangeable; it is the moral principle that individuals should not… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
What passes in the world for talent or dexterity or enterprise is often only a want of moral principle. We may succeed… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
In ancient times, any man rising up above the common people tried to shape his life according to his principles; it is… — African Spir Copy Share Image
Judge not, that ye be not judge"... is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one gives to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“What subjectivism is in the realm of ethics, collectivism is in the realm of politics. Just as the notion that "anything I… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When we assume God to be a guiding principle well, sure enough, a god is usually characteristic of a certain system of… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
To risk reputation and affection for the truth's sake is so demanding that to do it constantly you will need a degree… — Alistair Begg Copy Share Image
“Call me Ishmael. Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“As for law and religion, which also have preached this principle, they have simply filched it to cloak their own wares, their… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“Realism maintains that universal moral principles cannot be applied to the actions of states in their abstract universal formulation, but that they… — Hans J. Morgenthau Copy Share Image
“Not one people has ever yet organised itself according to the principles of science and reason. Never has there been a single… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
We may make mistakes-but they must never be mistakes which result from faintness of heart or abandonment of moral principle. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There are no "standards of Right". Ethics is balderdash. Each Star must go on its own orbit. To hell with "moral principle";… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Force cannot transmit a moral principle: moral ideas can be received only through the reason of the heart. — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
It is among the evils of slavery that it taints the very sources of moral principle. It establishes false estimates of virtue… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
The second commandment is "Thou shall not construct any graven images." Is this really the pinnacle of what we can achieve morally?… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
A moral principle is not a command to act or to forbear acting in a given way: it is a tool for… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
