Quotes About Principles

The major studios don't differ very much from one another as they all operate under essentially the same principles and pressure.

We Americans love our Constitution so much that we can't bear to change even the stupid parts.

Great nations need organizing principles, and 'Don't do stupid stuff' is not an organizing principle.

Basic Economics 101. It's the most complicated simple subject there is.

Senator Gillibrand is good at saying things that sound nice but have little substance. I don't think we elect our public officials to avoid taking a stand or a difficult position on anything.

Just as predatory animals follow a similar general design and behave in similar ways, so organizations, especially those in competition with one another, must follow certain design principles if they are to succeed and prevail.

Question: Is it Tyron or Tryon Edwards? There seems to be a discrepancy. What is meant by ill-desert or is this a typo?

Hay formas de comportarse con dignidad moral incluso en circunstancias extremas

Strive for integrity - that means knowing your values in life and behaving in a way that is consistent with these values.

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

A person who has no need of character is called characterless.

Okay. Morality in a nutshell. Don't hurt people if you can avoid it. Don't steal stuff unless you're starving or it's really, really important. Work hard. Pay your bills. Try to help others. Always double-check your math if there are explosives involved. If you screwed it up, you need to see it gets fixed. And don't eat anything that talks. If it doesn't fall under one of those categories, just do the best you can.

ÄŒlovÄ›k by se mÄ›l chovat tak, jak si myslí, že by se mÄ›li chovat vÅ¡ichni.

Boy do I pray about that often-the idea of needing some physical thing more than the unity of the spirit, more than the principles of mind, soul, life, truth, Love

In the old days conscience was very important. If someone tried living without one, it was obvious right away, everyone lived an open life then. There were all kinds of people then, too. Some would have been happy to follow their conscience, but what do you do if you're born without one? You can't buy it with money.

But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.

I know that a life has high value, but our rights, our independence,our honour have a higher value than life.

Here we begin frank speculation. And since we are speculating, we'll use those powerful pseudo-laws, the Principles of Mediocrity and Minimal Assumption.

We're long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.

When leaders act contrary to conscience, we must act contrary to leaders.

Those who use the Bible as a reference for moral behavior are simply cherry-picking those teachings, such as the Golden Rule, that they have independently decided are moral for other reasons, while ignoring those teachings with which they disagree.

No hacen falta muchas razones para mostrar que la vida buena tiene más valor que la buena vida

He was strict and hard and had perfectly clear and definite ideas about duty, where the others were concerned. For oneself one can always find circumstances that alter cases

Had you but seen it, I promise you, your high-minded principles would have melted like candle wax. Never would you have wished such beauty away.