Quotes About Principles

Basic religion is the reason we have morals.

We've had other things come up in their place, but I don't think' anything beats morals.

My morals are important to me.

I'll never go against my morals.

I have a strong head on my shoulders... I've always been grounded. People would think not because of who I am, but I've always been raised with that sense of morals from my dad and my mother.

I don't believe in God. I do believe in Judaism. I believe in ethics, morals.

I've always tried to keep my family and how I was raised and my morals in the back of my head.

Our schools should be places that encourage the open debate of ideas and teach important morals to our young people so that they know right from wrong.

More than anything, you have to respect the game and do things the right way.

This game is based on good values more than anything else.

Some people are motivated by money - I'm not one of them.

I'm not motivated by money and I never really have been.

No matter what happens to our game, money won't be a motivation for me.

American business needs more conscience, not less, whether from religious motivation like Hobby Lobby or from secular intentions.

A lady once offered me a mat, but as I had no room to spare within the house, nor time to spare within or without to shake it, I declined it, preferring to wipe my feet on the sod before my door. It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

But many of us love the fact that Ricardo was able, nearly two hundred years ago, to produce insights that illuminate our understanding today. It's easy to see the difference between nineteenth-century farming and twenty-first-century frothing, but not so easy to see the similarity before it is pointed out to us. Economics is partly about modelling, about articulating basic principles and patterns that operate behind seemingly complex subjects like the rent on farms or coffee bars.

of those buzzword-addicted startups are definitely not Web 2.0, while some of the applications we identified as Web 2.0, like Napster and BitTorrent, are not even properly web applications!) We began trying to tease out the principles that are demonstrated in one way or another by the success stories of web 1.0 and by the most interesting of the new

Attacks on the principles of the Declaration began at an early point in American history. In the four decades before the Civil War, defenders of slavery explicitly rejected it, even calling it, as Senator John Pettit did in 1854, "a self-evident lie."63 Horrified by this, antislavery politicians rallied to the Declaration. They developed a constitutional interpretation that emphasized liberty and equality, and they denounced slavery as incompatible with the

The Constitution's foundation is the Declaration of Independence, and as slavery's defenders were increasingly forced to reject its principles, and to defend racial inequality and hierarchy as good things, they found it increasingly difficult to maintain allegiance to the Constitution.

Beck's three principles of cognitive therapy were: All our emotions are generated by our "cognitions," or thoughts. How we feel at any given moment is due to what we are thinking about. Depression is the constant thinking of negative thoughts. The majority of negative thoughts that cause us emotional turmoil are plain wrong or at least distortions of the truth, but we accept them without question.

Politicians are more concerned with "issues" than "principles," but talked as though the two nouns had the same meaning.

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Our founding fathers' failure to apply the principles of freedom that they were espousing to the area of race is a prominent reason why many minority individuals today are less than enthusiastic to join in with those in our nation who want to exalt or restore America's history and heritage. God's kingdom does

We need an objective standard that isn't tied to our emotions, thoughts, or desires.