Quotes About Principles

I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves.

I would hope that Kanye [West] would be remembered for being smart and sticking to what he believes.

I would hope that we can load our moral computers with three elements of integrity: 1. Dealing justly with oneself. 2. Dealing justly with others. 3. Recognizing the law of the harvest.

Above all I hope that the education of the common people will be attended to so they won't forget the basic principles of freedom.

So I'm taking a stand-and I hope others will-to really live what I believe and embrace who I am in Jesus Christ.

I feel like Obama in a way. His idea that hope means not shrinking from a fight it's the courage to reach for something. My music is that. Those are principles I try to embody.

Moral courage is the highest expression of humanity.

Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots

The right of an individual to refuse to kill, to torture, or to participate in the preparation for the nuclear destruction of humanity seems to me to be fundamental.

All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.

...the true greatness of a nation is founded on principles of humanity.

The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs.

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

I decline to go fox hunting (nor did she want her sons William and Harry to be involved in hunting).

I decline to go fox hunting.

There is no middle way. We cannot compromise on cruelty.

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.

There's no such thing as business ethics; there's just ethics. And ethics makes no concessions for the real or imagined necessities of making a profit.

Computers operate on simple principles that can be easily understood by anybody with some common sense, a little imagination, and an IQ of 750.

Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity

The Declaration of Independence laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity.

I ask you...to adopt the principles proclaimed by yourselves, by your revolutionary fathers, and by the old bell in Independence Hall.

On the distinctive principles of the Government ... of the U. States, the best guides are to be found in ... The Declaration of Independence, as the fundamental Act of Union of these States.