Quotes About Principles

Principles become modified in practise by facts.

Important principles may and must be flexible.

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

I will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

Leaders can be moral-and they should be moral-without imposing their morality on others.

We should know what our convictions are, and stand for them. Upon one's own philosophy, conscious or unconscious, depends one's ultimate interpretation of facts. Therefore it is wise to be as clear as possible about one's subjective principles. As the man is, so will be his ultimate truth.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but the principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.

The Department of Justice is committed to asking one central question of everything we do: What is the right thing to do? Now that can produce debate, and I want it to be spirited debate. I want the lawyers of America to be able to call me and tell me: Janet, have you lost your mind?

Character is the real foundation of all worthwhile success.

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

A president's hardest task is not to do what's right, but to know what's right.

I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if, at the end ... I have lost every friend on earth, I shall have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable grounds.

I have my standards. They may be low, but I have them.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

I should never have allowed the gates of the town to be opened to people who assert that there are higher considerations than those of decency.

Justice doesn't hide behind anonymity. It doesn't operate without rules of conduct.

There's a difference between right and regs sometimes. That's why regs can change, but right doesn't.

You'd never ask me to do something that wasn't right. There's a difference between right and regs sometimes. That's why regs can change, but right doesn't." And that, Eve realized, might be the long and short of why she'd made Peabody her partner.

You'd never ask me to do something that wasn't right. There's a difference between right and regs sometimes. That's why regs can change, but right doesn't.

Money without honor is a disease. BALZAC

But two and two do equal four. Unless you give some strange, special meaning to equal. You can count it off for yourself: one two three four. If two and two really equalled three then everything would collapse into chaos. We would be in another universe, with other physical laws. In the existing universe two and two equal four. It is a universal rule, independent of us, not man-made at all. Even if you and I were to cease to be, two and two would go on equalling four.

A uno le gustaría seguir sintiendo cierto respeto por cualquier persona que prefiere la muerte al deshonor