Quotes About Principles

He's like Stanley Baldwin,' thought Travers: 'I'd rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.' Just

It emerged from two other disciplines, physiology and philosophy. German Wilhelm Wundt (1832–1920) is seen as the father of psychology because he insisted it should be a separate discipline, more empirical than philosophy and more focused on the mind than physiology. In the 1870s he created the first experimental psychology laboratory, and wrote his huge work Principles of Physiological Psychology.

It didn't occur to me to go into something that didn't have an ethical return for me.

The Constitution is a pantheon of values, and a lot of hard cases are hard because the Constitution gives no simple rule of decision for the cases in which one of the values is truly at odds with another.

I would never do a commercial if I thought it was offensive to anyone.

It's easy to maintain your integrity when no one is offering to buy it out.

No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office.

We must, from the highest office in the land right down to the shoeshine boy in the airport, have a return to biblical basics.

Don't engage with corrupt officials under any circumstances. The results are always bad.

Call me old-fashioned, but I believe that morality is not just a matter of opinion.

I'm an old-fashioned guy.

I still believe in a lot of good old-fashioned values, and I do think anyone will ever change me in that respect.

I don't share the same values as One Nation.

It is difficult to separate oneself from one's design moralities.

No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference.

I need to hold onto my soul and my integrity, and I can't compromise that.

When you start messing with the Constitution and what this country was founded on - our baseline is what we call it - it just opens up too many doors.

I see the government operating the way the founders intended.

You can say a lot of things about me, but I own my own opinions. They're not for sale.

Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!

Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way.

I never change. MRS. CHEVELEY: (elevating her eyebrows) Then life has taught you nothing? LADY CHILTERN: It has taught me that a person who has once been guilty of a dishonest and dishonorable action may be guilty of it a second time, and should be shunned. MRS. CHEVELEY: Whould that rule apply to everyone? LADY CHILTERN: Yes, to everyone, without exception. MRS. CHEVELEY: Then I am sorry for you, Gertrude, very sorry for you.

It is personalities, not principles, that move the age

Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.