Quotes About Principles

I come from a long line of very strong, tough women. We stick to our principles and stand up for what we believe in, which is fundamental fairness, which is my raison d'etre.

It can be tough to stand alone for something you believe in.

Sometimes standing up for things that are right makes things tougher.

Things are still in early stages, but one can imagine that as we build up and systematize our theories of these associations, and try to boil them down to their core, the result might point us toward the sort of fundamental principles I advocate.

We should be exploring consciousness at the neural level and higher, where the arrow of causal analysis points up toward such principles as emergence and self-organization.

I consider no man honest who does not observe towards other nations the principles which he desires to be observed towards his own: and therefore I will not interfere in your domestic questions.

There's so few people in this town with a conscience.

If anyone said to me 'invent a new monster so we can sell more toys', I'd kick them out of my office.

The leaders of the world's largest economies agreed during the November 2008 G20 summit not to create barriers hindering global trade and capital flows. Russia shares these principles.

Lindsey Graham can't lead us in any direction because he traded his moral compass for petty political gain.

All secret oath-bound political parties are dangerous to any nation, no matter how pure or how patriotic the motives and principles which first bring them together.

Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together.

The soul of man... is a portion or a copy of the soul of the Universe and is joined together on principles and in proportions corresponding to those which govern the Universe.

President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.

The possibility of reduced-time interstellar travel either by advanced extraterrestrial civilizations at present or ourselves in the future, is not fundamentally constrained by physical principles.

Let a man be firmly principled in his religion, he may travel from the tropics to the poles, it will never catch cold on the journey.

You can't reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree to its leaves.

When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree by the river of truth, and tell the whole world - No, you move.

Integrity is not a given factor in everyone's life. It is a result of self-discipline, inner trust, and a decision to be relentlessly honest in all situations in our lives.

The first duty of man is to take none of the principles of conduct upon trust; to do nothing without a clear and individual conviction that it is right to be done.

Quality relationships are built on principles, especially the principle of trust.

Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.

Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.