The chief difficulty with making an appeal to moral principles is to set them forth in other than abstract terms, since they are the product of a set of feelings which lie too deep for easy phrasing in definite words.
One must use the appeal to moral principles, therefore, soberly and with discretion.
The strongest arguments for limiting by law the hours of labor for women and children have always been based on moral principles; and all arguments for political reform hark back to the Ten Commandments.
Ethics then is usually confined to the particular field of human character and conduct so far as they depend upon or exhibit certain general principles commonly known as moral principles.
The early chancellors were ecclesiastics, and under their influence not only moral principles, where these were not regarded by the common law, but also the equitable principles of the Roman law were introduced into English jurisprudence.
The insipid uniformity of these pictures was unfortunately too often seasoned by the corruption of moral principles which, more especially after the age of Louis XIV.
We do not say too much, when we charge ethical naturalism with dissolution of all moral principles.
The invention of commerce has arisen since those governments began, and is the greatest approach towards universal civilisation that has yet been made by any means not immediately flowing from moral principles.
In the mean time I am distressed to see matters so badly conducted, and so little attention paid to moral principles.
For beings who are willing to govern themselves by moral principles, there can be no doubt that a government relying upon moral principle is the true form of government.
This second assumption, therefore, that polygamy and divorce are known to be sins by moral principles and not by prohibitory precepts, is swept away by the words of Christ, and the teaching of the Holy Ghost.
All the sects agree in regard to moral principles, and it is this which assures us of the divinity of the Christian revelation.
No moral Principles so clear and so generally received as the forementioned speculative Maxims.
View but an army at the sacking of a town, and see what observation or sense of moral principles, or what touch of conscience for all the outrages they do.
Reason, moral principles, cannot in any case be shoved behind these affairs, for reason and morality grow out of them.
The demand of each side treats its opponent as a wilful violator of moral principles, an expression of self-interest or superior might.
Never before have there been such occasions for conflict which are the more significant because each side feels that it is supported by moral principles.
Our schools of to-morrow, we should conclude, must still be inspired by the scientific spirit, but what we need is science humanised, and science in the service of moral principles.
It isn't moral principles in all cases; it is mostly cowardice, or sexual weakness.
Such a law is, nevertheless, a type of the estimation of the maxim on moral principles.
This remark is important in so delicate a case as the determination of moral principles, where the slightest misinterpretation perverts men's minds.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "moral principles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
