Quotes About Principles

Ultimately, it isn't your knowledge that makes the choice: it is your values and your will to be faithful to your values.

At the very moment when we refuse to follow our conscience and refuse to be truthful, we become all the more aware of the presence of conscience and the absolute truthfulness inside.

Vice? Virtue? It's best not to be too moral. You cheat yourself out of too much life. Aim above morality. As Confucius says, 'Don't simply be good. Make good things happen.

It's best not to be too moral. You cheat yourself out of too much life. Aim above morality.

The worst crimes are not committed by evil degenerates, but by decent and intelligent people taking 'pragmatic' decisions.

Integrity has rewards that are more valuable than how many days we spend on earth.

Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

In the practice of our politics we do not believe that the end always justifies the means.

To live in a place is to live by their values.

One of the hardest things about diplomacy is to put yourself into someone else's shoes without compromising your own principles.

A gentleman considers what is right; The vulgar consider what will pay.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

I for my part have never yet seen one who really cared for Goodness, nor one who really abhorred wickedness. One who really cared for Goodness would never let any other consideration come first. One who abhorred wickedness would be so constantly doing Good that wickedness would never have a chance to get at him.

He who merely knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them.

The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete.

Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.

When you're older, you will realise the only thing that matters, the only thing, is that you had courage and honour. Lose those things and you won't die any quicker, but you'll be less than the dirt on our boots. You'll still be dust, but you'll have wasted your short time in the light.

And the reason the thoughts kept coming back to me was that I kept turning their sin over in my mind. And so I discovered another of God's principles: We can trust God not only for our emotions but also for our thoughts. As I asked Him to renew my mind, He also took away my thoughts.

Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.

our beliefs invariably drive our decision making.

Our society, our culture, and our humanity depend on never crossing certain lines

If any class or race can be permanently set apart from, or pushed down below the rest in political or civil rights, so may any other class or race when it shall incur the displeasure of its more powerful associates, and we may say farewell to the principles on which we count our safety.

I believe the regressive Left - the group of people who use illiberal tactics to silence those defending liberal principles - to be the Left's version of the Tea Party.