Abstract Quote by Ayn Rand

Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

To be a fully functioning moral agent, one cannot passively accept moral principles handed down by fiat. Moral principles require moral reasoning.

— Michael Shermer

A moral principle is not a command to act or to forbear acting in a given way: it is a tool for analyzing a…

— John Dewey

The individual makes a clear effort to define moral values and principles that have validity and application apart from the authority of the groups…

— Lawrence Kohlberg

“Moral experience—the actual possession and exercise of good character—is necessary truly to understand moral principles and profitably to apply them.”

— Aristotle

You can't make rules regarding the moral behavior of something unless you know what the hell it is, and what it's capacities are. What…

— Jerry Garcia

The nature of morality must be considered, and preferably before one is exposed to situations where a moral decision is required.

— Brandon Sanderson

People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't assume that your personal moral compass, however admirable it may be, will always give you the right answer to complicated questions that require…

— Joseph Badaracco

Our search for such [moral] principles can start with . . . the unconditional imperative to acknowledge every person as a person. If we…

— Paul Tillich

Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes.

— Seneca the Younger

The temptation to moralize is strong; it is emotionally satisfying to have enemies rather than problems, to seek out culprits rather than the flaws…

— William Sloane Coffin