Quotes About Principles

There's nothing I'd violate certain principles for. But how do you know when you're violating them? You have to guess at things just like most people do. You have to apportion the values when you look back. You finish up the portrait then—paint in the details and shadows.

His motto: "Screw the little people." He had lied before, and he would lie again. Ethics were for suckers.

I at once made of those two principles the general foundations of all style: first, to say what one feels exactly as one feels it — clearly, if it is clear; obscurely, if it is obscure; and confusedly, if it is confused; secondly, to understand that grammar is a tool not a law.

la ética es proactiva, es decir busca lo bueno y no sólo pretende evitar lo malo: a partir de principios morales, proyecta directrices futuras y transforma la convivencia y la colaboración dentro de la empresa, innovando hacia lo mejor y no solo prohibiendo lo evidentemente peor.

Those who have no absolute values cannot let the relative remain merely relative; they are always raising it to the level of the absolute.

I'm not going to be a yes man to you just because you're paying me a fee.

Few things are more important to me than the values that we hold dear in this country, and so I believe that there are few things that could be more important to teach our students in the classroom.

I only fight clean fighters. I'll fight anybody in the UFC that's clean. Or dirty. Or clean.

I don't like to use - I never use - any kind of drugs to help me in my fights. I don't like that. I don't like drugs.

An actor is known by his choices, not by his box-office figures.

Conservatism is not about the party, because the party is merely the shell. It is the inside - it's the filling that really means something.

After I finished working for Estee Lauder, I stopped being a professional model. I decided to never again advertise something that I don't actually use. I only sign up for things that I truly believe in.

If the day ever comes when I think something is okay simply because district schools do it, I hope my board fires me.

I'm very firm in my beliefs.

I firmly believe in the sanctity of life.

One of the things I love most about Lib Dem members is that for all our policy disagreements, we agree on why we're Lib Dems in the first place.

I'm a fiscal conservative. That's how I define myself.

We think our leadership has been too timid to go after corruption, and often times, they bow to the liberal progressive demands of the White House instead of standing up for our values.

A man who has made no enemies is probably not a very good man.

I think the question is who am I? That's what we all should be asking ourselves. Who am I? Well, if I am first a Christian conservative then that dictates my response to all questions so my response first as a Christian conservative is to vote consistent with my value system.

I never want to sell my soul for something I don't believe in. Because guess what? Somebody somewhere in the world would have believed in that part and should be playing it - who am I to not allow that person that opportunity?

People have always asked me, 'Haven't you wanted to sell out?', and it's like, who am I going to sell to?

Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for comfort or promotion, but is simply determined to do what he believes to be right. He is a dangerous uncomfortable enemy, because his body, which you can always conquer, gives you little purchase upon his soul.

Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society.