Quotes About Principles

Obligations may be universal or particular.

The very moment you understand that being a Muslim and being American or European are not mutually exclusive, you enrich your society. Promote the universal principles of justice and freedom, and leave the societies elsewhere to find their model of democracy based on their collective psychology and cultural heritage.

Russia does not and cannot have any political choice but democracy. I want to say, and even stress, that we share those universal democratic principles taken around the whole world.

I don't align myself with the West of the Muslim world. I align myself with what I perceive to be just and in accordance with my principles - the principles that I live my life by which are universal principles and that are embodied in the religion of Islam.

The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated.

Part of China's strategic planning is to make their universities among the top level of the world, and I think they understand you can't do that without the adoption of some of the principles of the great universities in the West; one of those is the ability to have free expression and discussion in the classroom.

Want to be a well-paid bioethicist, with one, two, or even three university appointments? Just get yourself a two-piece navy polyester suit and follow these three simple rules: (1) Never name names. (2) Screw principles; just follow procedures. (3) Bury the money.

A woman, like a man, should be treated with human decency, according to the rule of law, and free of the abusive, unjust exercise of power. And you don't need to have plumbed the depths of the female or male psyche to live in accord with these principles of civilized life and the maxims of a free society.

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.

The majority of women have no principles of their own; they are guided by the heart, and depend for their own conduct, upon that of the men they love.

No women no kids - that's the rules.

The underlying principles of manners- respect, fairness, and congeniality.

Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.

You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.

We know that men and women can be good without faith. We know that.

As she read the ten commandments for the first time, a Chinese woman said, "I don't see how anyone can very well get on without them."

Women are the guardians of morality.

There are some women ... in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else.

We need a consistent conservative, someone who has stood for free market principles, who has stood for the Constitution and, critically, who stood for the working men and women of this country.

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I believe in the morals that I do. I believe in the projects I take part in and I think that has been my north star.

Sometimes when you stare adversity in the face you've got to go back to those basic principles of football and do them right.

The principles upon which a safety lamp might be constructed I stated to several persons long before Sir Humphrey Davy came into this part of the country.

All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.