Top 1200 Ethical Principles Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

What are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?" "Stories. And they give me hope.

It's important. One of the principles in the United States is civilian control of the military.

In books or films, it is desirable to have a climactic battle scene, but the world does not operate in those gross dramatic terms. In Vietnam, there was a general aimlessness, not just in the physical sense, but beyond that in the moral and ethical sense.

I was born and raised a Christian and I still adhere to those principles.

...from the same principles, I now demonstrate the frame of the System of the World.

The ethical debates are like stones in a stream. The water runs around them. You haven't seen any biological technologies held up for one week by any of these debates.

Here is a good principle: If need be, give up your principles!

Freemasonry is 'veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols' because these are the surest way by which moral and ethical truths may be taught. It is not only with the brain and with the mind that the initiate must take Freemasonry but also with the heart.

The mongers brought them together upon a mutual surrender of their principles.

We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

I think there is some resistance when people talk about ethical fashion, and a tendency to panic that if you're bringing a moral agenda and highlighting the origins of the garments, you can't incorporate style. But there's no reason why style and conscience can't co-exist.

If principles don't determine what you are going to pass or do, then power will.

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree to its leaves.

In America, we've got to get back to these base principles of what democracy is.

While values drive behaviors, principles govern consequences.

Nonviolence is one of those immutable principles that we cannot and must not deviate from.

The data stream has been corrupted, return to first principles.

I have too many responsibilities and principles. There's no time for 'guilty' pleasures.

A company's ethical behavior is ultimately triggered by some sense of caring. And care is a sense of closeness to someone or something. A company must bring value to whom or what it is close to.

The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.

We know the principles of coaching. The art is knowing when to apply them.

I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

If a person is successful, we imagine they are probably also ethical, conscientious and deserving of their good fortune. This obscures the fact that many people who get ahead have done so by doing less than moral actions, which they cleverly disguise from view.

Christianity is no mere scheme of doctrine or of ethical practice, but is instead a kind of miracle, a power out of nature and above, descending into it; a historically supernatural movement on the world, that is visibly entered into it, and organized to be an institution in the person of Jesus Christ.

The more facts I can have, the better. I can operate very nicely between them, but I am not very good at making things up. I am not sure how ethical it is.

Presidents come and go. History comes and goes, but principles endure.

You can use principles of the free market to drive social change.

But principles defended at the expense of pragmatic application is the business of priests.

There is tension between the values of modern society and the principles of Islam.

Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves.

Principles have achieved more victories than horsemen or chariots.

Decentralised collaborations are inherently threatening to Whitehall's core principles.

You know flexibility is a good thing but it shouldn't - you shouldn't be flexible on core principles.

All you have to do is DECIDE what you want. BELIEVE you DESERVE IT, and PRACTICE the success PRINCIPLES.

My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring.

Parents need to teach their children principles of respect and acceptance.

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

Principles, convictions and motives are neither sold nor bargained for!

Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way.

The saving principles and doctrines of the Church are established, fixed, and unchangeable.

The establishment of the chaplainship to Congress is a palpable violation of ... constitutional principles.

Jews bear children not only because the carnal election of Abraham must continue. For Jews, raising children is essential to living a rounded ethical life.

Just as the natural environment depends on biodiversity, so the human environment depends on cultural diversity, because no one civilization encompasses all the spiritual, ethical and artistic expressions of mankind.

Now, more than any time previous in human history, we must arm ourselves with an ethical code so that each of us will be aware that he is protecting the moral merchandise absent of which life is not worth living.

Any [political] party without principles is rudderless and passive.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

Principles must conquer in the long run, for that is the manhood of man.

I accept no principles of physics which are not also accepted in mathematics.

I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.

I probably have mellowed down a bit. But when it comes to principles, I still have to make a stand.

He who does not master the nude cannot understand the principles of architecture.

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.

I was raised with no religious training or influence. Except the influence was to be a moral and ethical person at the secular level. And to be a peace marcher, an activist for civil rights, peace and justice.

Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with 'what can I give' spirit.

Chiropractic is founded upon different principles than those of medicine.

One of the principles upon which the E.U. is built is the separation of powers and the independence of the judiciary.

Surely the principles of Christianity lead to action as well as meditation.