Top 1200 Moral Principles Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Man tends to treat all his opinions as principles.

Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.

I don't believe you outsource your convictions and principles to people.

Principles don't mean anything until they cost you something.

Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.

Adherence to men, is often disloyalty to principles.

When I need to identify rebels, I look for men with principles

My principles are more important than the money or my title.

Quality relationships are built on principles, especially the principle of trust.

Obey the principles without being bound by them.

General principles should not be based on exceptional cases.

It is rational to choose the right means to your ends to develop very elegant abstract formal theories of rational choice, and then turn these into what look like moral theories. Philosophers tend to be ravished by the formal beauty of such theories, and they don't pay much attention to the fact that our human limitations make them pretty useless in practice, while the simple point about instrumental reasoning is too shallow to be of much real moral interest.

To really understand something you've got to reduce it to its principles.

If we can employ free market principles, we can help everyone.

I am a man of principle, and one of my basic principles is flexibility.

If our principles are right, why should we be cowards?

Fixed principles of truth are the only safeguard for youth.

The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

This is not a time to back away from the principles that this country was founded on.

You have to stick to your principles and when you believe in something, to fight for it.

I have principles and I am not going to be forced to compromise them.

Those who believe they have pleased God by the quality of their devotion and moral goodness naturally feel that they and their group deserve deference and power over others. The God of Jesus and the prophets, however, saves completely by grace. He cannot be manipulated by religious and moral performance--he can only be reached through repentance, through the giving up of power. If we are saved by sheer grace we can only become grateful, willing servants of God and of everyone around us.

Conservatives say the government can't end poverty by force, but they believe it can use force to make people moral. Liberals say government can't make people be moral, but they believe it can end poverty. Neither group attempts to explain why government is so clumsy and destructive in one area but a paragon of efficiency and benevolence in the other.

Art itself is essentially ethical; because every true work of art must have a beauty or grandeur of some kind, and beauty and grandeur cannot be comprehended by the beholder except through the moral sentiment. The eye is only a witness; it is not a judge. The mind judges what the eye reports to it; therefore, whatever elevates the moral sentiment to the contemplation of beauty and grandeur is in itself ethical.

Circumstances should never alter principles!

From a policy standpoint, the Judeo-Christian principles are important.

I get along with people. But I don't sacrifice my principles either.

There are no styles of karate-do, just varying interpretations of its principles.

Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

Many frequently change their principles, but seldom their practices.

Our country was founded upon the principles of debate and compromise.

One of the first principles of perseverance is to know when to stop persevering.

And my principles go right in line with the Tea Party.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

I teach them correct principles and they govern themselves.

Always get back to your core principles.

The principles governing the behavior of systems are not widely understood.

I'm a guy of strong principles and I think people respect that.

We in the West should stand by our core principles.

Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.

The only problem with Republican principles is no one's following them.

Rely on facts, figures, principles of equality and fairness.

We should be led by principles and morals and not by men.

The new tinge to modern minds is a vehement and passionate interest in the relation of general principles to irreducible and stubborn facts. All the world over and at all times there have been practical men, absorbed in 'irreducible and stubborn facts'; all the world over and at all times there have been men of philosophic temperament, who have been absorbed in the weaving of general principles. It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty of our present society.

In the greatest fiction, the writer's moral sense coincides with his dramatic sense, and I see no way for it to do this unless his moral judgement is part of the very act of seeing, and he is free to use it. I have heard it said that belief in Christian dogma is a hindrance to the writer, but I myself have found nothing further from the truth. Actually, it frees the storyteller to observe. It is not a set of rules which fixes what he sees in the world. It affects his writing primarily by guaranteeing his respect for mystery.

We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!

I think that Bible principles will help anybody.

Propensities and principles must be reconciled by some means.

My father taught me that you have to stand by your principles.

Never forget that you are practicing a craft with certain principles.

The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.

The most persistent principles in the universe are accident and error.

Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.

Principles are the basis for developing a vision and value system for all.

I've learned to be pragmatic, but I don't sacrifice my principles, my values.

When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are.

Presence always wins out over principles.

There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.

...the true greatness of a nation is founded on principles of humanity.