Quotes About Principles

Don't never participate in no bad scenes, he reminded himself; that was his motto in life.

It's about wrong and less wrong. Bad and less bad.

Its purpose was to defend democracy in this country, first of all. Then to defend the principles of freedom of thought and expression.

It'a about wrong and less wrong. Bad and less bad.

The most effective organizations are those that are held together by shared and enforced principles, values, and standards.

Calculate the fine structure constant from first principles.

We have to be willing to live at the same standard by which we judge.

When it all come down to it, the thing that matters most in a relationship is principles [...] We have the same idea what's right and what's wrong, and that's got us through any number of things. If you can have that with someone, then you're most of the way toward love. Not just lover-love. Any kind of love.

Invoking the moral high ground somehow makes you lose it. Using a secret as a weapon makes you almost as bad as the transgressor.

Harry S Truman despised settled conventions.

Nothing irritated her more than these high-and-mighty vegetarians who ate meat sometimes and then decided that it didn't really count.

Just do the right thing." The simplicity is so removed from my own generation of helicopter parents.

Causes can be tricky masters," Harrington sighed. "It's really difficult to avoid checking your scruples at the door when you buy into one of them.

So I might say to her: look, the thing you have to appreciate is that we'd just been through a century of relativism and deconstruction, in which we were informed that most of our fondest-held principles were either uncertain or simple wishful thinking, and in many areas of our lives we had already been asked to accept that nothing is essential and everything changes—and this had taken the fight out of us somewhat.

The principles of Christianity and Sod's Law (also known as Murphy's Law) are the same: Everything happens to me, for me.

A moral compass does not cease to function because one's surroundings are new and strange, or else it is no compass at all.

I would rather die than see my face in a car advertisement.

I will never let money from anyone affect what I do.

People buy into my agenda. I don't buy into anyone's agenda.

I'm not in this for the money because if I was, I would have jumped out after our first album.

My parents are all people who have taken a stand for what they believe in over and over again. That to me is a fine example - even if I disagreed with some of their choices.

A man should never apologize!

If you disapprove of violence, then you can't think there is any age when violence is appropriate.

If it doesn't seem nice, appropriate, or right, don't do it.