Quotes About Principles

I'm really tired of virtue.

Rattigan's world demanded unwavering trust in principles, loyalty, and virtue. At the time of this play - Rattigan was writing this play in 1947 about an incident that took place in 1914 - should a boy say he didn't do something, his father would believe him; a British father would take the defense of his son's honor to his grave.

Indeed, in foreign policymaking, inconsistency is often a virtue. I speak not of principles but of policy.

One of the market's virtues, and the reason it enables so much peaceful interaction and cooperation among such a great variety of peoples, is that it demands of its participants only that they observe a relatively few basic principles, among them honesty, the sanctity of contracts, and respect for private property.

One of the great business virtues of high publishing was that it was a difficult business to enter. You had to stand for something.

In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need people who want to do the right thing, those people don't exist because you've crushed anyone's desire to do the right thing with all these incentives.

One of our Constitution's greatest virtues is that it looks to judges as a source of reasoned, practical, rights-minded decision making.

All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them, virtuous Principles are laid prostrate.

You can be a virtuous person without faith in God.

If our principles are only our principles when it is convenient for us, when they align with our visceral emotional responses, then they are, in fact, not principles at all.

I was not so committed to financial success that I was willing to abandon my principles and priorities. One of the most visible examples of this is our decision to close on Sunday.

Conservatives are the heirs to the Founders' vision. But we have to act like it.

baseball should be played for the love of the game and not the almighty dollar. I

I can't help the way they are, but I'll be damned before I become like them.

Because I would very much like to kiss you, Miss Darling, and unlike you, I'm not in the habit of taking what rightfully belongs to someone else.

Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.

Since childhood, a sense of knowing right from wrong had been a steady compass for Raoul Wallenberg. This, more than the gun in his pocket, would be his courage.

A barometer of a moral deficit.

my beliefs comfort, they don't kill.

We must recognise the essential underlaying savagery in the animal called man, and return to older and sounder principles of national life and defense. We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake.

A marciful Providunce fashioned us holler O' purpose thet we might our principles swaller.