Jimmy Stewart Quotes

Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted.

It's my opinion that every one I know has morals, though I wouldn't like to ask. I know I have. But I'd rather teach them than practice them any day. "Give them to others"-that's my motto.

I don't want to do anything that violates my own personal code of ethics and morals.

Ethics are pre-determined and a matter of discovery, not a evolved concept.

There can be no compromise on moral principles.

Right and wrong as moral principles do not change. They are applicable and reliable determinants whether the situations with which we deal are simple or complicated. There is always a right and wrong to every question which requires our solution.

A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals.

A different vision of ethics is that of a collection of resources people can use to act better. The resources might be firm rules that could always be relied on. Or they might be ideals that could often be followed without thinking but that sometimes conflicted with one another.

As she read the ten commandments for the first time, a Chinese woman said, "I don't see how anyone can very well get on without them."

Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives.

Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals.

Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When it's so lucrative to cheat.

Do you know what morals are? Morals are an obedience to rules that people laid down to help you live among them.

The law functions as formal embodiment of a moral code, not as free-standing substitute for it.

The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.

As a rule of thumb I say, if Socrates, Jesus and Tolstoy wouldn't do it, don't.

It’s pretty simple, the ethical life. It’s just demanding.

Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis.

The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.

I am, as I have always been, of the opinion that while the niceties of normal moral constraints should be our guides, they must not be our masters.

For many people, morality means a set of rules governing the disposition on one's genital organs; or a set of injunctions against lying, stealing, or killing except when such acts are sanctioned by church or state.

Morality is a code of black and white. When and if men attempt a compromise, it is obvious which side will necessarily lose and which will necessarily profit.

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

At times, morality can be dismissed as a matter of personal conscience, no matter how widespread its acceptance. Ethics, on the other hand, arises from societal or group commitments to principia of behavior.

It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.