Quotes About Principles

George Santayana: A man is morally free when Ã¢â'¬Â¦ he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.

If your private actions do not generalize, then you cannot have general ideas.

People try to impress you with the things they have done ... You should be more impressed with things they would never do.

A man is morally free when … he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.

how people can cherry-pick ethical rules to fit their actions.

Remember that Socrates was put to death because he would not compromise his standards.

People who are not morally independent tend to fit ethics to their profession, rather than find a profession that fits their ethics.

Success is leading an honorable life. Honor implies that there are some actions you would categorically never do, regardless of the material rewards. It also means that there are things you would do unconditionally, regardless of the consequences.

Compromising is condoning. The only modern dictum I follow is one by George Santayana: A man is morally free when Ã¢â'¬Â¦ he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.

The ethical is always more robust than the legal. Over time it is the legal that should converge to the ethical, never the reverse. Hence, laws come and go; ethics stay.

Un hombre es honorable en proporción a los riesgos personales que asume por sus opiniones

Laws come and go; ethics stay.

A man is morally free when Ã¢â'¬Â¦ he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.

Virtue is not something you advertise.

The ethical is always more robust than the legal. Over time, it is the legal that should converge to the ethical, never the reverse. Laws come and go; ethics stay.

the highest form of virtue is unpopular.

And I will keep mentioning that I have no other definition of success than leading an honorable life.

The challenge for people today--and it is not and easy one--is to maintain high personal standards even while feeling that one is living in a moral sewer.

When our behavior is congruent with our professed values, when ideals and practice match, we have integrity.

If integrity is a source of self-esteem, then it is also, and never more so than today, an expression of self-esteem.

The psychologist, seeking to understand the principles of human behavior, observes (a) that man, as a biological entity, possesses various needs, and (b) that man characteristically acts to achieve various ends or goals.

In the little chaos of Pearl's character there might be seen emerging-and could have been from the very first-the steadfast principles of an unflinching courage-an uncontrollable will-a sturdy pride which might be disciplined into self-respect-and a bitter scorn of many things, which, when examined, might be found to have the taint of falsehood in them.

It appears to me, said the daguerreotypist, smiling, that Uncle Venner has the principles of Fourier at the bottom of his wisdom; only they have not quite so much distinctness in his mind as in that of the systematizing Frenchman.

Thomas Paine was so inspired by the heroism displayed at Fort Mifflin that he published an open letter to William Howe: 'You are fighting for what you can never obtain and we are defending what we never mean to part with.