Quotes of: Moral-principles Keyword

I spend some of my time brooding about people who seem addicted to double standards - those who take an allegedly principled stand on a Monday, then switch firmly to the opposite principle on Tuesday if it is to their advantage.

John Leo

I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you've done.

Robert Downey, Jr.

CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake here. The principle is that Dan Rather doesn't work for the police, and that people that speak to Dan Rather understand that he's a journalist and not a p...

Floyd Abrams

I deny morality as I deny alchemy.

Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

Extreme boredom provides its own antidote.

Reflections or Sentences and Moral Maxims

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.

William Slim

No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage.

Keith O'Brien

When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.

Ma Jian

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The moral values I've learnt in my life I've learnt through football.

Arsene Wenger

Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.

Daniel O'Connell

If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality.

Jay Alan Sekulow

The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

Matthew Arnold

Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.

Swami Sivananda

Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.

Gary Bauer

Matters of taste are not, it turns out, moral issues.

Annie Dillard

I was extremely greedy and lost my moral compass.

Andrew Fastow

The USA experiences the crisis of ideological and moral values.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky

A man of high principles is someone who can watch a chess game without passing comment.

Chinese

We want character but without unyielding conviction; we want strong morality but without the emotional burden of guilt or shame; we want virtue but without particular moral justifications that invariably offend; we want good without having to name ev...

Death Of Character: Moral Education In An Age Without Good Or Evil