Top 1200 Moral Code Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

The military code of justice sets out exactly what type of charges are available for specific acts.

Obviously Linux owes its heritage to UNIX, but not its code. We would not, nor will not, make such a claim.

I did not have a black coat to wear to the Oscars. It was a mandatory dress code, that was the reason I gave it a miss.

The ribosome is a machine that gets instructions from the genetic code and operates chemically in order to produce the product.

I continually remind myself to live by a code. It's very important to me. I've got a bad temper.

People talk about the idea of special relationships, that is, the morality only really binds people who stand in some kind of contractual relationship with each other but in fact if you take that seriously as a criteria of when we have a moral relationship then it's hard to see why we would have moral obligations to strangers for example or people who live across the sea from us but yet, every decent person believes that we do.

It seemed really amazing that you could write a few lines of code and have it learn to do interesting things.

It's really just my Hammurabi code of journalism ethics, that I don't want to ask someone to do something that I won't do myself.

It seems fair to say that while the moral standards of the nineteenth century persisted almost unchanged into the twentieth, moral practices changed sharply, and that though the standards of the nineteenth century persisted the institutions that had sustained them and the sanctions that had enforced them lost influence and authority.

No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence. As a right over a man's subsistence is a power over his moral being, so a right over a woman's subsistence enslaves her will, degrades her pride and vitiates her whole moral nature.

There is a sort of an unwritten code in Washington, among the underworld and the hustlers and these other guys that I am their friend.

Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights; the accumulations of a lifetime gather there

Chief Keef makes me proud that there are other young niggas out there who are about that code.

Successful or not, acts of physical courage always bring honor. It is the smaller forms of valor - standing up for principle at the risk of social disapproval, economic loss or injury to career - that require the greatest moral will power. Since there is usually little upside to winning and a significant and often lasting downside to losing, moral courage often requires as much character as physical bravery.

Poetry interprets in two ways: it interprets by expressing, with magical felicity, the physiognomy and movements of the outward world; and it interprets by expressing, with inspired conviction, the ideas and laws of the inward world of man's moral and spiritual nature. In other words, poetry is interpretative both by having natural magic in it, and by having moral profundity.

If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are those of the legal code.

I don't know why anyone would prefer a more complicated tax code instead of a simpler one.

We have a legal system, and we have a penal code. We have the death penalty in Saudi Arabia, and people should respect this.

I wanted to rewrite the code of life, to make new molecular machines that would solve human problems.

No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.

As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive.

Restorers of paintings and pottery follow a code of conduct in their work to distinguish the original material from what they are adding later.

There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation. What's done in private between adults doesn't concern the Criminal Code.

Wherever moral ambition exists, there right exists. And moral ambition itself must be presumed present in subconsciousness, even when the conscious self seems to reject it, so long as society has resources for bringing it into action; in much the same way that the life-saver presumes life to exist in the drowned man until he has exhausted his resources for recovering respiration.

It is the restrictions placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly agreeable.

For an act to be moral the intention must be based on compassion, not duty. We do something because we want to do it, because we feel we have to do it, not because we ought to do it. And even if our efforts fail - or we never even get to implement them - we are still moral because our motivation was based on compassion.

Even with multiple instruction books, maneuvering the maze of the tax code is costly and time-consuming.

The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless

To some,Islam is nothing but a code of rules and regulations.But,to those who understand,it is a perfect vision of life

We are committed to the Common Civil Code, Article 370 and building of a magnificent temple at the birthplace of Lord Ram.

On the one blind date I went on, I had a backup. If I texted you the code word, you call and say my dogs are sick.

I auditioned specifically for Cyborg, but at the time, they were using a code name for the character... I think it was Oscar.

Code-sharing, alliances, and connections are all about "how do we screw the poor customer for more money?"

The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless.

There was certainly an old law code which stands behind the earliest form of Deuteronomy. Presumably that is what was lost.

Historically, figuring out what to do to the tax code has been almost as contentious a political issue as judicial appointments.

It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals, a kind of secret code.

The ethical code of my upbringing was be good to people and try not to hurt them. You don't need a god to tell you that.

We can't literally talk with everybody else on the planet or even with representatives of every group. But we can be in favor of the respectful exchange of ideas in ways that don't presuppose that all the right answers are on our own side. Still, we should all have moral bottom lines. Once genocide or torture begins the priority shifts from understanding to stopping it. One hope I have for the global conversation as instantiated in human rights treaties is that we are slowly coming to consensus on certain moral baselines.

It's up to the reader to decipher the code, or the words, based on everything they know about life and emotions.

The time has also come to recognize the painful truth that traditional Judeo-Christian moral values of pain and pleasure in human relationships have contributed substantially to child abuse and to the prevalence of physical violence in Western civilization.... The religious system upon which our culture is based holds that pain, suffering and deprivation are moral and necessary to save one's soul and make one a 'good person.' The crucifixion and scourging of Christ are examples.

Trivia rarely affect efficiency. Are all the machinations worth it, when their primary effect is to make the code less readable?

At the center of the Christian faith is the affirmation that there is a God in the universe who is the ground and essence of all reality. A Being of infinite love and boundless power, God is the creator, sustainer, and conserver of values....In contrast to the ethical relativism of [totalitarianism], Christianity sets forth a system of absolute moral values and affirms that God has placed within the very structure of this universe certain moral principles that are fixed and immutable.

As Muslims, we must have an active presence based on ethical and moral consistency. We need to be very vocal, to inform people, to demonstrate when necessary. We need to write so that the people understand that what they are getting from the media and politicians is biased and not accurate. And this is true especially when it comes to some communities within the U.S. or with respect to the Middle East and Africa. This is what I am expecting from a new generation of leaders: Meet these expectations of moral consistency.

Both Marx and Nietzsche understood that moral outrage is the last resort of the powerless. That is why Marx refused to issue moral condemnations of capitalism, preferring instead to lay out, calmly and ruthlessly, his reasons for believing that it is destined to be replaced by socialism. And that is why Nietzsche mocks Christianity for portraying its crucified Saviour as bait wriggling on a hook to catch unsuspecting souls.

How can we encourage other human beings to extend their moral sympathies beyond a narrow locus? How can we learn to become mere human beings, shorn of any more compelling national, ethnic, or religious identity? We can be reasonable. It is in the very nature of reason to fuse cognitive and moral horizons. Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love.

As a genre-bending blend of police procedural and science fiction, The Silk Code delivers on its promises.

When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.

It seems perfectly clear that Economy, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science. There exists much prejudice against attempts to introduce the methods and language of mathematics into any branch of the moral sciences. Most persons appear to hold that the physical sciences form the proper sphere of mathematical method, and that the moral sciences demand some other method-I know not what.

Nonprofit status is what created the Bible Belt. The tax code brought religion back to this country.

That's one thing about Dave Filoni. He doesn't call me up unless there's something to think about or there's something that we have to work out on a philosophical or moral or a mythological riddle that we need to solve. Some sort of moral conundrum that we need to place our feet on one side or the other. It's fun when we can ambiguously put those feet into the sand and let the fans discover for itself what it all means.

When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development.

I basically wrote the code and the specs and documentation for how the client and server talked to each other.

I bet that if you actually read the entire vastness of the U.S. Tax Code, you'd find at least one sex scene . . .

My first fundamental premise of our faith is that God is real and so are eternal truths and values not provable by current scientific methods. These ideas are inevitably linked. Like other believers, we proclaim the existence of the ultimate lawgiver, God our Eternal Father, and the existence of moral absolutes. We reject the moral relativism that is becoming the unofficial creed of much of modern culture.

The moral climate within the ruling class in this country is not that different from the moral climate within the ruling class of Hitler's Germany

What I hope is that those with the knowledge of the humanities break into the closed society where code gets written: invade it.

The moral duty of the free writer is to begin his work at home: to be a critic of his own community, his own country, his own government, his own culture. The more freedom the writer possesses, the greater the moral obligation to play the role of critic.

We will be a state that puts hardworking Georgians - no matter their ZIP code or political preference - first.

Recreation in the open is of the finest grade. The moral benefits are all positive. The individual with any soul cannot live long in the presence of towering mountains or sweeping plains without getting a little of the high moral standard of Nature infused into his being ... with eyes opened, the great story of the Earth's forming, the history of a tree, the life of a flower or the activities of some small animal will all unfold themselves to the recreationist.