Top 1200 Ethical Principles Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

It is difficult to connect general principles with such thoroughly concrete things as children.

We should not live by Darwinian principles. But Darwin explains how we got here.

It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles.

For me the core principles of privacy online are transparency, choice and control.

Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.

Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

The principles of Buddhism and Shambhala can be effective in helping the course of what is happening in the world.

With a background in science I am extremely interested in the meeting ground of science, theology, and philosophy, especially the ethical questions at the border of science and theology.

If I can help create an environment where the principles that I believe in can be implemented - to me, that's fulfilling.

If you claim to have a theory that deduces unexpected consequences from nontrivial principles, let's see it.

The principles of Buddhism have become more commonplace, which is a good thing.

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

Historically, religious groups have been most effective when they have stood apart from government and critiqued the performance of government in light of their ethical traditions. When churches become cozy with the state, they lose the capacity and the will to criticize unjust policies.

...how engaged are your employees right now? You may consider such a question impossible to answer, but the truth is, you need to know this if you want a more profitable, ethical organization, as everyone must share the same values to make the changes genuine

I bought some books in order to learn the first principles of philosophy.

You have principles. You test them as accurately as you can. Eventually, they might break down.

My principles are simple. Protect the Earth. Serve the People, and Explore the Universe

The questions to ask are what is moral, what is ethical, what is in line with your belief system, and what seems to make the most sense and cause the least amount of harm? Eat the foods that are in line with your sincere answers.

If someone is willing to sell out his principles for the job, he is not worthy of it.

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

One of the main reasons I'm vegan is because I'm ethically lazy. My friends who eat meat or who eat eggs have to sometimes wrestle with the ethical consequences of their actions. By being vegan, I take the easy way out.

Everything is useful which contributes to fix the principles and practices of virtue.

Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone.

Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.

We acquire a testimony of the principles of the gospel by obediently trying to live them.

We ought not to schismatize on either men or measures. Principles alone can justify that.

The principles stated in the proclamation on the family are a beautiful expression of this gospel culture.

India's engagement with the ASEAN region lies in the clarity of the principles that we share.

So when you hear these lies about how we can't possibly change our health care system because it would be electoral disaster, kindly remind people that we already have a moral and ethical disaster on our hands.

You know the public is more easily swayed by persons than by principles.

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

I don't consult polls to tell me what my principles are or what our policies should be.

True love is impossible for those to whom principles mean little.

All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.

Forget your environmental footprint. Think about your ethical footprint. What good is it to build a zero-carbon, energy efficient complex, when the labor producing this architectural gem is unethical at best?

Business principles are only as good as the practices that back them up.

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

The proclamation of the Gospel remains the primary service that the Church owes to humanity, to offer the salvation of Christ to the man of our time, who is in many ways humiliated and oppressed, and to orientate in a Christian way cultural, social, and ethical transformations that are unfolding in the world.

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

I finished by saying that it struck me that all the ethical systems I was discussing were after the fact. That is, that people act as they are disposed to, but they like to feel afterwards that they were right and so they invent systems that approve of their dispositions.

We shall never understand the ethical system taught by Jesus unless we realize that he was a Jew, not only by birth, but that he lived and taught as a Jew; the Sermon on the Mount was addressed to his distracted fellow nationals.

There is a need for financial reform along ethical lines that would produce in its turn an economic reform to benefit everyone. This would nevertheless require a courageous change of attitude on the part of political leaders.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own.

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

[Barack] Obama seems to have no firm principles that I can discern that he will adhere to.

Whatever type of football you want to play, if you don't have certain principles you're lost.

I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.

Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles.

Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical assumptions, which make it impossible to prove them right or wrong in the way we can with theories in physics or chemistry.

We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.

I'm many things, most of 'em bad. But a man of political principles? No.

The virtual suppression of ethical discussion after 1845 produces the semblance of purely descriptive analysis, dressed in the mantle of positivist objectivity, analysis which is, in fact, strung to a framework of crude, because unexplicated, moral assumptions.

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.

In the ethical sense, propaganda bears the same relation to education as to business or politics. It may be abused. It may be used to over-advertise an institution and to create in the public mind artificial values. There can be no absolute guarantee against its misuse.

You must practice to be able to return to essential principles at any moment.

I have long been puzzled by the entrenched mentality, and often enforced practice, of longer work hours and less sleep. Innumerable policies exist within the workplace regarding smoking, substance abuse, ethical behaviour, and injury and disease prevention.