Quotes About Principles

He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping.

It's very important for people to know themselves and understand what their value system is, because if you don't know what your value system is, then you don't know what risks are worth taking and which ones are worth avoiding.

If our values are worth anything, we should stand up for them and live by them, both within Britain and across the world.

The Bible tells us that there are some things worth fighting for. In fact, the Bible says there's some things worth dying for.

Do what in your heart you know is right. It is easy to get caught up in your ambitions, but no job is worth not being true to yourself.

Whatever your partisan affiliation, it is worth considering the overarching constitutional principles involved in any given Supreme Court precedent.

I will not sell anything ever again that I do not believe in. I'm not willing to do a job for pure financial gain. I've done that, and it wasn't worth it.

If I win playing badly, I will not go home happy and I will never tell the players that the result was worth it.

My father really set the tone for us to be a more moral nation, to take a moral high ground in everything that we do.

I have too many responsibilities and principles. There's no time for 'guilty' pleasures.

Feminism is a lens I see the world through and what I believe in. I don't ever use it as a tool of promotion.

Radical groups can become legitimate political players in the democratic process if they accept core democratic principles and abandon the use of force as a political tool. Or they can maintain armed terrorist militias in order to threaten their neighbors and intimidate their people. The international community should not allow them to do both.

You can't get along without a knowledge of the principles and rules governing the influence of one color upon another. A mechanic might as well try to get along without tools.

A surgeon wouldn't sell his tools. A lawyer doesn't sell his law books. I'm not going to sell my horse. I'm a sportsman.

If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.

If you are a friend of the Constitution as I am, I hope you will consider engaging me in the topics of my posts whether you agree or disagree with my position on a particular subject.

Culture, what you believe, what you value, how you live matters. Now, as fundamental as these principles are, they may become topics of democratic debates from time to time, so it is today with the enduring institution of marriage. Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman.

The Tories have long since abdicated any pretension of principled global leadership.

We have a very clear position in the U.K. against torture, and we should maintain that.

I strongly disapprove of torture and have never and would never provide assistance in its process.

No conditions justify torture.

The right has to be more than the Tory party.

It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson... even at the expense of my conscience and judgement. such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles.

not a conclusion we derive from deeper principles. Straight lines in space are the shortest possible distance; straight paths in spacetime are the longest possible time.