Quotes About Principles

Tennesseans know they can count on me to never compromise on independent, conservative principles and that I will always fight for smaller government, less spending, and more jobs.

If you can find a way that your principles are actually the strategically smartest thing to do, you've kind of figured it out.

I don't smoke, drink, or do drugs, so those are the values I live by.

Mennonites are very conservative. They don't drink, dance, smoke, go to movies. I grew up in a very conservative faith-based community.

Resistances do not derive from a few heterogeneous principles; but neither are they a lure or a promise that is of necessity betrayed. They are the odd term in relations of power; they are inscribed in the latter as an irreducible opposite.

Finally, the basic principles of transhumanism, that humanity should not have to endure "nasty, brutish, and short" lives, when science can relieve suffering by enhancing the human race, were first clearly laid out by Julian Huxley in 1957.

at the heart of character is honesty and integrity.

Are you going to show integrity only when someone is watching you—or are you going to show it all the time?

When young people's education is at stake, compromise is crime.

He knew perfectly well that his petition would not help the prisoners. His true goal was not to free to prisoners; it was to show that people without fear still exist.

I have standards. Well, okay, they're love standards, but I have them.

You know, freedom is a very popular idea, and young people love it, and they're open to ideas. And they like principled answers to our problems.

We agreed with him in principal - we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.

Miss Mills replied, on general principles, that the Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was.

They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.

In the end, what will you fight for-- what got there first, what got there last or what has been there all along?

There is nothing more important than love. And no law higher." - Malcolm Fade

You're like…you're like Abraham Lincoln. Didn't he walk some ungodly distance to return a penny? The store clerk probably thought he was an idiot.

And later my macabre joy sours and I'm weeping for myself, unable to find solace in any of this, crying out, sobbing, I just want to be loved, cursing the earth and everything I have been taught: principles, distinctions, choices, morals, compromises, knowledge, unity, prayer - all of it was wrong, without any final purpose.

How one is remembered doesn't matter when one is focused on integrity.

The point being that everything emerges from the same collection of ingredients governed by the same physical principles. And those principles, as attested to by a few hundred years of observation, experimentation, and theorizing, will likely be expressed by a handful of symbols arranged in a small collection of mathematical equations. That is an elegant universe.

When you're dead set on doing the right thing, sometimes it's hard to recognize that you're doing it in the wrong way.

Face it, you can be a writer or a pacifist. But you can't be both.

Even in your smallest gestures, you express your sense of honor, if you have one.