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Quotes About Principles

You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends.
~ Hillary Clinton
For one to be a good believer of any beliefs, one must start with being a good person first.
~ Unknown
A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
~ Unknown
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The design of a temple depends on symmetry, the principles of which must be most carefully observed by the architect.
~ Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity.
~ Charles Edison
Today, as always, the people, no less than the courts, must remain vigilant to preserve the principals of our Bill of Rights, lest in our desire to be secure we lose our ability to be free.
~ Earl Warren
Be a function of your values rather than a function of the impulse or desire of any given moment.
~ Stephen Covey
When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises.
~ Angela Merkel
Why do the people humiliate themselves by voting? I didn't vote because I have dignity. If I had closed my nose and voted for one of them, I would spit on my own face.
~ Oriana Fallaci
America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
~ Barack Obama
A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity.
~ George Sand
We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.
~ Dominique de Menil
The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
What is dignity without honesty?
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
The principles of the SPD have remained the same for 150 years: democracy, human dignity, justice and inclusion. We will never change those principles.
~ Martin Schulz
I can walk without shoes and live without cloths, but I cannot live without dignity even for a second.
~ M.F. Moonzajer
Take pleasure in your dreams relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.
~ Giotto di Bondone
No school can supply an anti-liberal education, or a fascist education, as these terms are contradictory. Liberalism and education are one.
~ Unknown
People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
~ Martin Luther
The end of education is character
~ Sathya Sai Baba
Better not to exist than live basely.
~ Sophocles
I want to emphasize that character in our leaders does matter.
~ Bill Haslam
I have been left-wing always, from childhood.
~ Claire Tomalin