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I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much. — Samuel Johnson

All universal moral principles are idle fancies. — Marquis De Sade

It is difficult for me to regard anyone who obeys no moral principle in his conduct to be a religious man. — Mahatma Gandhi

Power lacks moral or principles. It only has interests. — Horacio Castellanos Moya

Moral principles have lost their distinctiveness. For modern man, absolute right and absolute wrong are a matter of what the majority is doing. — Martin Luther King Jr.

The Principles Of The Kingdom Of God Are Sealed Are Sealed Into Your Moral Awareness — Sunday Adelaja

Some level of truthfulness has always been seen as essential to human society, no matter how deficient the observance of other moral principles. — Sissela Bok

Great revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bayonets, and are achieved first in the moral, and afterwards in the material sphere. — Giuseppe Mazzini

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect. — Stephen Covey

An irrational society is a society of moral cowards-
of men paralyzed by the loss of moral standards , principles, and goals — Ayn Rand

There is less danger, gentlemen, in living according to a set of high moral principles than most politicians believe. — Michael Moorcock

The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scripture ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws. — Noah Webster

A person is said to have good character when their habits, dispositions and conduct reflect a deep commitment to ethical virtues and moral principles. — Michael Josephson

No leader will fight for values, for principles, if their government is a value-free vacuum. Moral relativism is morally wrong. — Rupert Murdoch

A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them. — Henry Ward Beecher

Placing the state in charge of moral principles is equivalent to putting the proverbial fox in charge of the chicken coop. — Murray Rothbard

Non-cooperation in military matters should be an essential moral principle for all true scientists ... — Albert Einstein

I think that violence and nonviolence are not moral principles, they're tactics. — Jerry Vlasak

Trying to explain moral principles to Khe Sahn was like reviewing a standard 1040 tax form with a house cat! — David Sedaris

Highfalutin moral principles are impossible guides to foreign policy. At worst, they reflect hypocrisy; at best, extreme naivete. — Charles Krauthammer

A party should be founded not merely on numbers, but on moral principles, without which it can neither accomplish useful work nor inspire confidence. — Eleftherios Venizelos

There can be no compromise on moral principles. — Ayn Rand

Moral principle is the foundation of law. — Ronald Dworkin

What's the point of having beliefs and values if we don't stand up for the former and live by the latter? — Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon. — Nelson Mandela

To be a fully functioning moral agent, one cannot passively accept moral principles handed down by fiat. Moral principles require moral reasoning. — Michael Shermer

Exhorting his students: Be faithful to the moral principles of your religion. — Karl G. Maeser

Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right. — Fulton J. Sheen

After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question. — Salvatore Quasimodo

Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

In Shakespeare, tragedy was the flame struck from the clash of moral principles; here — Garth Risk Hallberg

Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest. — Abraham Lincoln

There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired? — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

I think my heart is quite selfish. If I followed my heart, I would not be a good person. But I have moral principles. I have to sit down and reflect. — Jo Nesbo

Separation of church and state cannot mean an absolute separation between moral principles and political power. — Edward Kennedy

Richard Nixon will always go down as a failure because of one stupid, moral - and that goes back to that last chapter, on principles. — Frank Luntz

We must face the fact that international relations are governed by interests and not by moral principles. — B.H. Liddell Hart

Through the imparting of moral principles, good behaviour, and education we must make the Chandala come up to the level of the Brahmana. — Swami Vivekananda

Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men. — Ayn Rand

We (atheists) act in good conscience because we believe in moral principles, not because we expect a reward in Heaven. — Margherita Hack