Top 1200 Ethical Principles Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I wanted to see what it means to think about taking responsibility for one's own desires and choosing to foreground desire as an ethical principle. I also wanted to find ways of asking what the limits of agency are for subjectivities that are not unmarked or hegemonic.

The twentieth-century conservative is concerned, first of all, for the regeneration of the spirit and character – with the perennial problem of the inner order of the soul, the restoration of the ethical understanding, and the religious sanction upon which any life worth living is founded. This is conservatism at its highest.

One of the basic principles when you dealing with mathematics and Islam: Seek knowledge.

Children are the ultimate investment of all of those that want to make money, to sell, to dominate. So there are two meanings. They are our ultimate investment for anyone who is honest and ethical and loving, but also for all the commerce.

We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles.

Principles are things which one calls upon to avoid something unpleasant.

Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior.

We need to challenge the dominant culture: by ethics, principles and values.

Profit doesn't appear as the goal but as a side effect of pursuing motivating principles.

I think, [ "You're All That"] it's based around the biblical principles and truths that transformed me.

Some things transcend politics and policy and the lust for power. Truth, honesty, integrity, decency and fairness are immutable values. They are the ethical substance of life. They ought to be cherished. To sell them out is to sell one's soul.

Gender equality is one of the principles we will never compromise at Accenture.

I do think the best thing for companies like Google and Facebook, if they are afraid of this ethical trap of advertising, is they should start letting people pay who want to pay and avoid some of the advertising.

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

But a wild democracy . . . too often disdains the essential principles of justice.

The Democrats should not waiver on our core beliefs and principles.

My belief is that no human being or society composed of human beings ever did or ever will come to much unless their conduct was governed and guided by the love of some ethical ideal.

The ethical decision is always the fearsome decision. When something matters enough that we are afraid of the consequences - afraid that even the honorable choice could result in harm or loss or sorrow - that's when ethics are involved.

Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law.

Principles are like prayers; noble, of course, but awkward at a party.

In true courage there is always an element of choice, of an ethical choice, and of anguish, and also of action and deed. There is always a flame of spirit in it, a vision of some necessity higher than oneself.

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market.

In the end we must have people to match our principles, not the reverse.

In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.

The kind of funny irony is that a lot of people talk about ethical meat eating as if it's a way to care about things, but also not to alienate yourself from the rest of the world. But it's so much more alienating than vegetarianism.

Sometimes a mentor has to be reminded of the principles he has tried to instill in others.

If they be principles evident of themselves, they need nothing to evidence them.

The best commentary on the principles of government which has ever been written.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

I believe that the horrifying deterioration in the ethical conduct of people today stems from the mechanization and dehumanization of our lives. A disastrous by-product of the development of the scientific and technical mentality. We are guilty. Man grows cold faster than the planet he inhabits.

In 30 years of public service, I have had no scandals. I have high ethical standards. I am most proud of my judgement, that kind of judgement is what we want in a president going forward. I want to be a peacemaker.

When you look at food as an ethical issue in the Christian tradition, you don't find very much about it. You don't find, as you do in the Jewish or Islamic or Hindu traditions, a lot of restrictions saying you can eat this but you can't eat that.

But when we get enough people who don't care, and who don't accept personal responsibility for high ethical standards, our organization gets the "M" disease. Mediocrity. Anybody in the place can be a carrier. By the same token, every individual can carry the cure: the ethics of excellence.

Throughout my career, I have lived by the principles of personal honor and professional integrity.

Islam, the third in historical sequence of the ethical monotheistic religions of the Near East, was very successful in establishing its monotheism, but had only very moderate success in spreading its version of Jewish and Christian ethics to the Arabs.

Faith exalts the human heart, by removing it from the market-place, making it sacred and unexchangeable. Under the jurisdiction of religion our deeper feelings are sacralized, so as to become raw material for the ethical life: the life lived in judgement.

Exhorting his students: Be faithful to the moral principles of your religion.

The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever.

Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.

The Upanishads do not reveal the life of any teacher, but simply teach principles.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

I'm inventing new principles. The audience has a point of view that no one can predict.

I have principles in my professional and personal life as to how things are done.

The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.

We the people have the power to decide who we want to see in our advertisements and how we want the world to be portrayed. If we show that being ethical and being diverse is profitable, they're going to market to us.

The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.

I propose . . . . The conformity of the proposed Constitution to the true principles of republican government.

I am comfortable that the principles that I articulated were never compromised.

I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.

Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, are things Christ unsparingly condemned. Destitute of fire, they are nothing more than a godless philosophy, an ethical system, and a superstition.

The most ethical way to deal with an unethical situation would be to simply say: 'We did something wrong.' But nobody in a family like mine would ever respond like this.

We have no ethical obligation to preserve the different breeds of livestock produced through selective breeding One generation and out. We have no problems with the extinction of domestic animals. They are creations of human selective breeding.

with the true convert, holiness is woven into all his powers, principles, and practice.

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

My mother was the source from which I derived the guiding principles of my life.

The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change.

The church at the time was much more faithful to reason than Galileo himself, and also took into consideration the ethical and social consequences of Galileo's doctrine. Its verdict against Galileo was rational and just.

He who merely knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them.