Quotes About Principles

Public symbols matter. They are one of the ways we tell each other, and the world, what we honor.

military figures like James Mattis, H. R. McMaster, and John Kelly: they found themselves working in an administration that was in every way inimical to basic command principles.

I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.

For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.

Everyday morality is always a blend, variously proportioned, of perfect morality and other more ambiguous ideas, for the most part religious. The greater the proportion of pure morality in a particular system, the happier and more enduring the society. Ultimately, a society governed by the pure principles of universal morality could last until the end of the world.

La pure morale est unique et universelle. Elle ne subit aucune altération au cours du temps, non plus qu'aucune adjonction. Elle ne dépend d'aucun facteur historique, économique, sociologique ou culturel ; elle ne dépend absolument de rien du tout. Non déterminée, elle détermine. Non conditionnée, elle conditionne. En d'autres termes, c'est un absolu.

La moral pura es única y universal. No sufre ninguna alteración en el transcurso del tiempo, ni tampoco ninguna añadidura. No depende de ningún factor histórico, económico, sociológico o cultural; no depende de nada en absoluto. No está determinada y determina. No está condicionada y condiciona. En otras palabras: es un absoluto.

As a vibrant force in civil society, women continue to press for their rights, equal participation in decision-making, and the upholding of the principles of the revolution by the highest levels of leadership in Egypt.

We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square.

There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we count ourselves among them.

Always live up to your standards — by lowering them, if necessary.

It's impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time.

In the desperation of the oncoming abyss, one may desire hope for its avoidance of reality; but hopelessness embraces the reality, recognizing that commitment to liberative principles is what defines our very humanity.

My honor is dearer to me than my life.

Give a man a noble cause and he would fight to the death for what he believed in,but get the woman he loves to leave him and his once honourable principles would cease to be quite so important.

A person who has no standard to live by other than the culture of the moment is a person whose principles might as well come from the latest public opinion polls.

America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.

Teddy Roosevelt didn't use a mouthpiece.

Ethics really isn't about agreeing to a set of principles. It's about changing the way you act.

The only way to create an ethical culture is to live it.

a county with a unique history of people starving and mortifying themselves for higher causes and principles, a political reflex that has twitched steadily down the years and seems rooted in some aggravated sense of sinfulness because, like no other county it is blistered with shrines and grottoes and prayer houses and hermitages just as it is crossed with pilgrim paths and penitential ways

The Person of Jesus creates your Peace. His Principles create your Prosperity.

Fundamentals are the building blocks of fun.

We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.