Quotes About Principles

Lady, did you ever see anyone shot by a gun without bleeding?" This film came out at the height of the Vietnam War. I love that line. That's gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way. And bleeding. Shooting and bleeding.

Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action.

The lesson I learned from this is that it's easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold to them 98% of the time.

Ce que nous enseignent l'expérience et l'histoire, c'est que ni le peuple ni les gouvernements n'ont jamais appris quoi que ce soit par l'histoire, ou agi selon des principes déduits de l'histoire.

If historicism were consistent, it would have to concede the right of history to every historical being, and therefore it must not stick anywhere, precisely because it should stick everywhere. As a world view, it makes the lack of principles a principle....

Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind.

For me, the essence of the great American Dream is spiritual. I believe that our Constitution is inspired and that it is based on principles that are timeless and universal. This is the reason why 95% of all written constitutions throughout the world are modeled after our Constitution.

'Dare to Discipline' was published in 1970 in the midst of the Vietnam War and a culture of rebellion. The book was written in that context, but the principles of child rearing have not changed.

People who are offended by the Ten Commandments have a deeper problem than the stone that it's written on, I think.

When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don't find any conflict among them.

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.

Although I'm only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.

The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment's thought, while the question of what is right and what is wrong has seemed all-important.

It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.

If you're going to figure something out, study ethics. You can ask What's the answer? What's Right and Wrong? What I learned is that nobody knows the answer and there is no Right and Wrong. So I'm incapable of becoming a fundamentalist because there are no absolutes, there's always a what if.

To be able to make statements, you need to be confident about what you think. You need to have a sense of right and wrong.

Sometimes people with strong ideology, whether left-wing or right-wing, refuse to do something simply because they believe it is wrong, when doing it actually benefits them. For some people, it's not just about money and political power.

As we develop the moral aspect of our lives, we often adapt standards of right and wrong that serve as guides and deterrents for our conduct.

You have to follow your moral compass: it's a good guide of telling you what is right and wrong.

For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.

We need to stand up to Donald Trump and the Republicans, but we also need to stand up against our own party establishment when it's on the wrong side of an issue.

We live in a world where everyone thinks they do the right thing, so they are entitled to do the wrong thing. So ends can justify the means.

You shouldn't change your behavior because a government agency somewhere is doing the wrong thing. If we sacrifice our values because we're afraid, we don't care very much about those values.

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or keep one; the man who requires you to do so is dearly purchased at a sacrifice.