Quotes About Principles

We don't take Sweet'n Lows from restaurants anymore. I don't stuff dinner rolls into my pocketbook.

Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.

Anytime I look at a president, I don't care what color he is.

Philosophically, I don't like doing commercials.

Never, ever, compromise on science.

Never compromise yourself.

I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.

Politics is compromise, by its very nature. But we never compromise on our values and beliefs.

I don't think one can write from a compromised moral position.

I really believe in not compromising your art. I feel like I've never compromised my art.

I do not condone the use of violence.

I don't condone violence, period.

My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct.

A personal code of conduct that you follow is far better than a social code of conduct that you are forced to follow.

I don't need others to validate my good conduct.

Men cannot make Scripture conform to their lifestyle; they must make their lifestyle conform to Scripture.

My conscience won't allow me to do films I thought were bad but were going to make money.

I have a moral conscience that is real central.

You're either a person with a conscience, or you're not. I think I've got quite a fine conscience.

I have always lived according to my conscience, and my past is clean.

I have a very clear conscience.

I believe in conscientious capitalism; that's a kind of driving force with me.

Condemnatory conservatism isn't anything I'm interested in.

You know, conservatism is not a bad thing. It's not a pejorative.