Quotes of: Moral-principles Keyword

Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it. They have decided that it is entirely right and proper for men to fight for their liberties and their rights, but that it is not right and proper for women to fight for theirs.

My Own Story

Las ideas religiosas, morales, sociales, políticas, no son sino manifestaciones del un desequilibrio del sistema nervioso.

La colmena

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

Moral Essays, Volume III: de Beneficiis

Morality doesn’t exist in space, only in the spaces between people.

The Space Race

To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault.

Reflections on a Ravaged Century

I have a strict moral code. I don't share penises with friends.

Two Wrongs Make a Right

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I gravitate toward the law, I think, certainly more times than not, because it's our best mechanism for legislating human behavior, and morality, and ethics.

David E. Kelley

I'd always liked the idea that drama acts at its best as a kind of arena for debate, not just about the thing itself, but also producing aesthetic, stylistic, political and moral discussions.

Jeremy Northam

Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.

Henry Miller

I guess if I had to put it into a single phrase, the moral of the Frank stories is that the hammer never really falls.

Jim Woodring

Nobody's born evil. I guess that's why we're drawn to violence. We're fascinated by it, but there's a moral in how you examine it.

Niels Arden Oplev

The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man.

Norma Shearer

Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.

Pat Barker

I know there is moral outage in regard to Mr. Milosevic, and that is certainly justified. But what about our response?

Pat Roberts

The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.

Paul Wellstone

Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept.

Robert Bork

No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference.

Rocco Buttiglione

Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.

Remy de Gourmont

It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.

Stanley Fish

Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.

Susie Orbach