Quotes About Principles

Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.

[On the principles of Italian neorealism:] I believe in imagination, but I have more faith in reality, in people. I am not interested in prearranged encounters, in the drama of things that happen to come together.

I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.

Ethics is a dream.

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

If you can't get to be uncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked. [...] live well and die happy.

That what we falsely call a religious cry is easily raised by men who have no religion, and who in their daily practice set at nought the commonest principles of right and wrong; that it is begotten of intolerance and persecution; that it is senseless, besotted, inveterate and unmerciful; all History teaches us.

As for moral theology, the Gospel and apostolic writings set forth both the general principles of Christian conduct and specific teachings and precepts. To apply these to particular personal and social situations, "moral theology requires a sound philosophical vision of human nature and society as well as of the general principles of ethical decision making" (68).

There is not a thread in it but scorns self-indulgence, weakness and rapacity.

The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble. —RALPH WALDO EMERSON

The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble. —RALPH WALDO EMERSON (ATTRIBUTED)1

4. Principled Entrepreneurship: This principle—so central to our culture that we had it trademarked—is defined as "maximizing the long-term profitability of the business by creating superior value for our customers while consuming fewer resources and always acting lawfully and with integrity." Creating value for society requires Principled Entrepreneurship—not political or other forms of entrepreneurship, such as corporate welfare or fraud.

We are accused, furthermore, of having ideals. Well, every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal.

Some people never have anything except ideals.

Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good.

I was so hungry. It was against my principles, but I find that principles have no real force except when one is well fed...

Character is higher than intellect.

A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero. He can say he doesn't like pie, when he sees there is not enough to go round.

We have a special name, here, for a certain kind of failure to defer to the greater good—for putting a personal sense of doing right above any objective measure of the outcome. It's called 'moral vanity'.

No fear can stand up to hunger, no patience can wear it out, disgust simply does not exist where hunger is; and as to superstition, beliefs, and what you may call principles, they are less than chaff in a breeze.   I

That was the hazard she'd face every day, here: not just the risk that she'd give in to temptation, but the risk that all the principles she'd chosen to define herself would come to seem like nothing but masochistic nonsense.

that right meant more than might; that being faithful and good meant more than being rich; that honor superseded all.

One did not need to believe in the Force to know right from wrong.

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.