Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Exhorting his students: Be faithful to the moral principles of your religion. — Karl G. Maeser Copy Share Image
I think that violence and nonviolence are not moral principles, they’re tactics. — Jerry Vlasak 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
Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Let us with Caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If only people would realize that moral principles are like measles… They have to be caught. And only the people who've got… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A party should be founded not merely on numbers, but on moral principles, without which it can neither accomplish useful work nor… — Eleftherios Venizelos Copy Share Image
Moral principles have lost their distinctiveness. For modern man, absolute right and absolute wrong are a matter of what the majority is… — Martin Luther King, Jr 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
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
Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Being a moral realist I see normative ethics as a search of the truth about our obligations and a search of explanation;… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked… — James Madison 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
I was raised with moral principles that would not be shaken in hard times. And mentorship is huge - it's really important… — Ser'Darius Blain Copy Share Image
There is no evidence for a god, no coherent definition of a god, no good argument for a god, good positive arguments… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
It is fairly easy to grasp abstract moral principles; it can be very difficult to apply them to a given situation, particularly… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
No great, inspiring culture of the future can be built upon the moral principle of relativism. For at its bottom such a… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
Using the phrase business ethics might imply that the ethical rules and expectations are somehow different in business than in other contexts.… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
That the foundation of our national policy should be laid in private morality. If individuals be not influenced by moral principles, it… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Lastly, our ancestors established their system of government on morality and religious sentiment. Moral habits, they believed, cannot safely be trusted on… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Their usual mistaken premise is that they affirm some consensus among people, at least among tame peoples, concerning certain moral principles, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Let us never lose sight of the fact that education is a preparation for life - and that preparing for life is… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“Morality is like defecation. When you have the urge to defecate, do you ask an intellectual, what it is like to feel… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“When the mind rises punned in the flames of self-realization, distance between human and human disappears as if it never existed in… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I tend to be sympathetic and very patient with people's lack of knowledge and never thought to express myself this way, but… — Kevin McCarty Copy Share Image
“The fact is that libertarianism is not and does not pretend to be a complete moral or aesthetic theory; it is only… — Murray N. Rothbard 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
“Kant in fact offers four distinct arguments in defence of the necessity and importance of examples in the moral life of human… — Robert B. Louden Copy Share Image
“Why should I give up revenge? On behalf of what? Moral principles? And what of the higher order of things, in which… — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
“Epic art is founded on action, and the model of a society in which action could play out in greatest freedom was… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“was a watershed event, establishing a utilitarian morality that runs through Islamic theology: anything that benefits Muslims and Islam is good, and… — Robert Spencer Copy Share Image
I tend to be sympathetic and very patient with people's lack of knowledge of things and neva thought to express myself this… — Kevin McCarty Copy Share Image
Some level of truthfulness has always been seen as essential to human society, no matter how deficient the observance of other moral… — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
