Quotes About Principles

There is less danger, gentlemen, in living according to a set of high moral principles than most politicians believe.

You can't regulate integrity

It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

'Atlas Shrugged' shows when you have a singular vision of something and how quickly you can become attune to that vision and devalue others quickly based on their principles and ideologies.

Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on the lips of its members, and which, I hope, is in their hearts, as I know and feel it is in mine, and mean it shall be in my conduct.

Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.

What you need to learn how to do is analyze situations and do differential diagnoses and understand the principle and the concepts rather than learn all the details, and medical school doesn't begin to do that.

When I was sixteen, I borrowed a copy of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' from the mobile library. Democrats and Republicans were standing for very different principles, and I could see which side was going to represent me.

I was sixteen when I converted to Islam. Beyond the fraternal aspect, my conversion did not change my life. I was already living by the same principles - being righteous, having values.

Real democracy is only possible when people truly imbibe democratic principles and respect ethical values above everything else.

All's love, yet all's law.

Integrity never goes out of style.

I love it when the Bible gives Emily Post-like tips that are both wise and easy to follow.

True love is impossible for those to whom principles mean little.

I love reform better than its modes.

Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown.

She told us we must always rotate our crops and never, never perjure ourselves.

amoral, immoral. Amoral describes matters in which questions of morality do not arise or are disregarded; immoral applies to things that are evil.

Leaders with principles are less likely to get bullied or pushed around because they can draw clear lines in the sand…The softest pillow is a clear conscience. —Narayana Murthy, founder and CEO, Infosys

Courage is what makes us do the right thing even when nobody else is doing it.

Mom and dad say I should make my life an example of the principles I believe in. But every time I do, they tell me to stop it.

The principles you live by create the world you live in; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world.

The heart has its order, the mind has its own, which uses principles and demonstrations. The heart has a different one. We do not prove that we ought to be loved by setting out in order the causes of love; that would be absurd.

All their principles are true, sceptics, stoics, atheists, etc...but their conclusions are false, because the contrary principles are also true.