Quotes About Principles

I have three very simple principles. I don't like conflicts of interest; they should be eliminated or disclosed. I believe in transparency, that people have to really not just know but understand what they're buying and selling. And that you have to have enough capital to back up your promises.

Transparency is one of our core principles, We treat the food with integrity. We don't commodify it beyond recognition.

Transparency and effective tax co-operation must be shared principles applied by all. Until they are, nations will need to protect themselves against loss of revenues to tax havens.

The key message is I'm always trying to hope the Singaporeans will understand, is a question of every government must be... examined based on certain very fundamental principles to have a good government. You must have transparency.

The best way for me to help with my life principals of transparency, democratization, excellence and modernity. I think it has to be like that in every area.

The role that one assigns to truthfulness will always remain central in considering what kind of person one wants to be—how one wishes to treat, not only other people, but oneself.

Now as then, the various ideals of happiness carry fundamental moral teachings about how to live.

Gandhi's insistence that personal change and the ability to bring about social change are linked. He warns that it is no use striving to implement principles such as nonviolence or justice in public affairs so long as one neglects them in one's personal life. And it is wise to begin in small and piecemeal ways.

It's funny how the same thing a man loves, is the same thing that he hates. What makes me stand out as a woman is that I have nonnegotiable principles, strength, and faith in my people. From the time that we shared you seemed to love that, admire it, even. Now you hate it because my ways have isolated you. The truth is, you've isolated yourself.

There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.

The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.

A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.

I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding.

These three sacred principles—the skillful motivation, the attitude of nongrasping that secures the practice, and the dedication that seals it—are what make your meditation truly enlightening and powerful.

We humans can spend our whole lives pondering the meaning of 'good' and 'evil,' but we will never be able to figure it out. The only thing that human beings can do is come up with a yardstick by which to measure good and evil.

One must stick by one's principles or else the fabric of society crumbles. If a child of mine deserved it, I would hang him myself.

Character is what you do when no one's looking.

The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.

Modern scientific findings harmonize with revelation through the ages. No conflict exists between the gospel and any truth .... All true principles are a part of the gospel of Jesus Christ. There is no principle that we need to fear.

He had a clear conscience. Never used it.

Only he knows that no task on earth is more burdensome and difficult than to maintain one's intellectual and moral independence and preserve it unsullied through a mass cataclysm.

Es cien veces mejor sufrir por una convicción que matar por ella.

Honesty is telling the truth to ourselves and others. Integrity is living that truth.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.