Quotes About Principles

I have a pretty keen ethical compass.

It's not about left or right, red or blue. It's about doing what is right for Kentucky.

I have the knack of easing scruples.

The kneeling and everything, I think it really only sort of solidifies who I am as a person and the things that I stand for.

I don't really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.

The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith.

But GAAP rules are not what most people might think of as "rules." They don't take the form of imperatives, such as "Count this expense exactly this way" or "Count this revenue exactly that way." They are guidelines and principles, and so are open to interpretation and judgment calls.

That's why I'm still a virgin, because it means something to me and I'm not going to toss my virginity at your charming feet just because you're the most gorgeous, fascinating man I've ever met and I happen to like your last name.

Once you start splitting hairs, trying to convince yourself some things are more acceptable to destroy, you've already lost the most important war.

You can kill but don't cuss. Break any rule necessary to save the world but don't watch porn or even think about having sex.

It's our actions that define us. What we choose. What we resist. What we're willing to die for.

You can kill but don't cuss. Break any rule necessary to save the world but don't watch porn or even think about having sex. How do they come up with this stuff-hold parental powwows for brainstorming diametrically opposed ethics?

There are some lines you just can't let another person cross. They don't always make sense, they might not always seem like the most important things, but only you can know what they are, and when you butt up against one, you have to defend it.

I don't know who the good guys are anymore. But I do know what the enemy is. It's the compromise of principles. You lose the war when you lose your principles. And the first principle is to look out for your comrades.

There's rights, and there's right.

The years of speeches about democracy and freedom were just words directed at an audience of mainly conservative Americans who had become enamoured with Africa's best known 'freedom fighter'. His commitment to democratic principles was no more real than the Maoist rhetoric Savimbi spouted in the pre-independence days when China was his biggest backer. It all comes down to this: 'If I don't win, I won't accept the result.

The book is a new philosophy of politics and of history, and an examination of the principles of democratic reconstruction. It also tries to contribute to an understanding of the totalitarian revolt against civilization, and to show that this is as old as our democratic civilization itself.

What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.

For Aristotle's essentialist definitions are the principles from which all our knowledge is derived; they thus contain all our knowledge; and they serve to substitute a long formula for a short one. As opposed to this, the scientific or nominalist definitions do not contain any knowledge whatever, not even any 'opinion'; they do nothing but introduce new arbitrary shorthand labels; they cut a long story short.

No one should be adored, it's fundamentally immoral.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing"; it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.

Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.

There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.