Top 1200 Moral Code Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code.

Since the beginning of the Movement, lesbianism has been a kind of code word for female resistance.

There exists no culture in which adultery is unknown, no cultural device or code that extinguishes philandering.

In New York, if you go into an Italian-American neighbourhood, the code of the streets is respect and reputation.

Me and my band and crew have always lived by the code: 'Work hard, play harder.'

But no one can blink at the fact that in this land, and in other lands across the world, there is an epidemic affecting the lives of millions of youth. It is a sickness that comes of a loss of values, of an abandonment of moral absolutes. The virus which has infected them comes of leaderless families, leaderless schools, leaderless communities. It comes of an attitude that says, "We will not teach moral values. We will leave the determination of such to the individual."

I've always wanted to have one of those hits on the radio, but we haven't really been able to crack that code.

No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.

The doctrine that might makes right has covered the earth with misery. While it crushes the weak, it also destroys the strong. Every deceit, every cruelty, every wrong, reaches back sooner or later and crushes its author. Justice is moral health, bringing happiness, wrong is moral disease, bringing mortal death.

We know that at conception, the genetic code is there for a unique individual. This is not something that is just a religious belief.

Meaning comes from the correspondence between the code and its execution, and the compact underlying structure of the world and its dynamics.

Never in the annals of software engineering was so much owed by so many to so few lines of code

If we play genie and grant client wishes, we are apt to construct castles of code in the air.

Natural good is' so intimately connected with moral good, and natural evil with moral evil, that I am as certain as if I heard a voice from heaven proclaim it, that God is on the side of virtue. He has learnt much, and has not lived in vain, who has practically discovered that most strict and necessary connection, that does and will ever exist between vice and misery, and virtue and happiness.

There is, however, a moral basis for the vegetarian diet for which the indeterminate value of an animal's life takes on irrelevance. And that moral basis is a concern for the environment, a value as absolute as the value we all place on human life, since humanity will not survive for long on a poisoned planet. To be an environmentalist who happens to eat meat is like being a philanthropist who doesn't happen to give to charity.

I rarely saw people sitting at computers producing real code wearing ties.

If you going to live by a certain code - as Bob Dylan said, you gotta serve somebody.

I sit down and I write and I make sure that it follows the code of Songwriting Craft 101.

My views on charity are very simple. I do not consider it a major virtue and, above all, I do not consider it a moral duty. There is nothing wrong in helping other people, if and when they are worthy of the help and you can afford to help them. I regard charity as a marginal issue. What I am fighting is the idea that charity is a moral duty and a primary virtue.

When Mitt Romney says he wants to reform the tax code, hold on to your wallets.

I'm a guy who shakes your hand and will never let you down. I have a code of honor and I don't lie.

Character is ethical and moral strength. People of good character have the moral awareness and strength to know the good, love the good and do the good.

I've given him more mixed signals than a dyslexic Morse code operator.

In ancient times, any man rising up above the common people tried to shape his life according to his principles; it is no longer like than now; it is (because) for the ancients, moral was a principle of inner life, whereas in our days, most of the time one is content to adhere to an official moral, that we recognize in theory, but that one does not care to put into practice.

Literature itself is a species of code. You line up symbols and create a simulacrum of life.

There are some things fundamentally off about the stance of the book. And maybe that's okay; maybe every book is flawed, and great books, as flawed as they might be, articulate a moral argument that the reader then carries forward. The critique to this model is, of course, to ask: Should a book be ever so perfect that you come out of it with complete moral agreement that can be sustained?

I found out only recently that we were making an index of enemy code signs.

The tax code gives you an enormous advantage if you can find some things you can just sit with.

Assassins did have a certain code, after all. It was dishonorable to kill someone if you weren't being paid.

To recover the fatherhood idea, we must fashion a new cultural story of fatherhood. The moral of today's story is that fatherhoodis superfluous. The moral of the new story must be that fatherhood is essential.

The tax code is now nine times longer than the Bible, and not nearly as interesting.

My belief is that "recluse" is a code word generated by journalists... meaning, "doesn't like to talk to reporters."

If you cannot grok the overall structure of a program while taking a shower, you are not ready to code it.

Often in America, access to the freedoms and privileges guaranteed under the Constitution are determined by ZIP code.

Fashion which affects to be honor, is often, in all men's experience, only a ballroom-code.

...any belief in supernatural creators, rulers, or influencers of natural or human process introduces an irreparable split into the universe, and prevents us from grasping its real unity. Any belief in Absolutes, whether the absolute validity of moral commandments, of authority of revelation, of inner certitudes, or of divine inspiration, erects a formidable barrier against progress and the responsibility of improvement, moral, rational, and religious.

I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code.

In the face of entropy and nothingness, you kind of have to pretend it's not there if you want to keep writing good code.

While theoretically a person may block God out, logically there will be a breakdown because ultimately all enunciation implies a moral doctrine of some kind. And if that moral doctrine is not absolute then the definer himself becomes undefined. That's what we are living with - an undefined definer giving us definitions for our course, and we are being trapped in the quicksand of the absence of objective truth.

I didn't set out to be at the top of technology companies. I'm just geeky and shy, and I like to code.

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant.

I don't have the slightest interest in gold. I like understanding what works and what doesn't in human systems. To me that's not optional; that's a moral obligation. If you're capable of understanding the world, you have a moral obligation to become rational. And I don't see how you become rational hoarding gold. Even if it works, you're a jerk.

I believe our task is to develop a moral and aesthetic imagination deep enough and wide enough to encompass the contradictions of our time and history, the tremendous loss and tragedy as well as greatness and nobility, an imagination capable of recognizing that where there is light there is shadow, that out of hubris and fall can come moral regeneration, out of suffering and death, resurrection and rebirth.

Is what is moral commanded by God because it is moral, or is it moral because it is commanded by God?

In order to live, man must act; in order to act, he must make choices; in order to make choices, he must define a code of values; in order to define a code of values, he must know what he is and where he is – i.e. he must know his own nature (including his means of knowledge) and the nature of the universe in which he acts – i.e. he needs metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, which means: philosophy. He cannot escape from this need; his only alternative is whether the philosophy guiding him is to be chosen by his mind or by chance.

Drosnin's 'The Bible Code' would hardly be worth mentioning were it not such a smash hit.

We counted over a million lines of code that we allege are infringed in the Linux kernel today.

Over the years, the tax code has become a vehicle for political favoritism and social engineering.

It would appear... that moral phenomena, when observed on a great scale, are found to resemble physical phenomena; and we thus arrive, in inquiries of this kind, at the fundamental principle, that the greater the number of individuals observed, the more do individual peculiarities, whether physical or moral, become effaced, and leave in a prominent point of view the general facts, by virtue of which society exists and is preserved.

We need a tax code that promotes savings, investment, achievement, innovation, and hard work.

Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore particular, serving a specific purpose for their propagators or creators, and enforcing a certain regime that disciplines human beings for social life by narrowing our perspectives and limiting our horizons.

I do not need the written code of a spiritual belief to act like a decent human being.

Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, John Wayne - these men had the code of the West.

If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code

But what of the voice and judgment of conscience? The difficulty is that we have a conscience behind our conscience, an intellectual one behind the moral. ... We can see quite well that our opinions of what is noble and good, our moral valuations, are powerful levers where action is concerned; but we must begin by refining these opinions and independently creating for ourselves new tables of values.

Rather take that moral sense and apply it to the particulars of a job that is going to test those ethical and moral precepts differently than if you're a professor, or a business person, or a dad. And if I were not comfortable with the judicious use of our military to protect the American people, than I shouldn't have run for president. And having said that, I do think that the wisdom of a [Martin Luther] King or a [Mahatma] Gandhi can inform my decisions.

Rule Number One in the India Savage Life Code: When in doubt or possible trouble, lie.

... these great improvements of modern times are blessings or curses on us, just in the same ratio as the mental, moral, and religious rule over the animal; or the animal propensities of our nature predominate over the intellectual and moral. The spider elaborates poison from the same flower, in which the bee finds materials out of which she manufactures honey.

Nonverbal communication is an elaborate secret code that is written nowhere, known by none, and understood by all.

Suppose . . . burglars had made entry into this . . . [library]. Picture them seated here on this floor, pouring the light of their dark-lanterns over some books they found, and thus absorbing moral truths and getting moral uplift. The whole course of their lives would have been changed. As it was, they kept straight on in their immoral way and were sent to jail. For all I know, they may next be sent to Congress.