Quotes About Principles

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

Lincoln bore down or anything he handled, mastering both the details and the principles.

Most principles are limp until they are tested.

When Marshall died in 1835, he and the Court he led had rebuked two presidents, Congress, and a dozen states and laid down principles of law and politics that still apply.

Lincoln had a stubborn concern for first principles.

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

Chemists all agree on the fundamental facts of chemistry.

In 1830, the writer Charles Augustin Saint-Beuve (1804–69) fought one of the owners of Le Globe in heavy rain; Saint-Beuve held an umbrella throughout the duel, claiming that he did not mind dying but he would not get wet.

We need to get back to reasoning and thinking things through. The future generation is being brought up in greed and without a true understanding of civics. There is no more emphasis on knowledge and time. As a society we need to process ideas and understand what certain principles are based upon.

They eat every part of them, including the testicles. I don't eat the testicles. I don't want anybody eating on mine, so I won't eat on anybody's. I eat the hams, ribs, and shoulders. I enjoy them. Once you start eating testicles, it's like you've gone cannibalistic.

The biblical revelation is about awakening, not accomplishing. It is about realization and not performance principles.

Reality, creation, nature itself, what I call the "the First Body of Christ," has no choice in the matter of necessary suffering. It lives the message without saying yes or no to it. It holds and resolves all the foundational forces, all the elementary principles and particles within itself—willingly it seems.

Does truth have a moral?

It doesn't seem right? Another part of him wondered, Since when do I worry about what's right?

El denominador común del liderazgo, es la integridad.

Moral codes are useful only when we have descended to needing them.

I get so tired of moral bookkeeping.

Other men may thrill to the sight of Old Glory rippling in the breeze, but for me the library was a better symbol of what I had taken up arms to defend.

I believe I have a good idea of what you mean by "professionalism." It appears to mean getting one's way by cheating and manipulating. It appears to mean serving the dictates of greed and advantage rather than those of goodness and the desire to see justice prevail in the world. If that is the "professionalism" you refer to, sir, I don't much care for it and have no wish to acquire it.

He did not really understand the game they were playing: in his world, the best way to get something was to deserve it, not to toady to the giver.

But when you grab happiness you may let go of something more valuable --- your integrity. - Hugh Pilaster

En definitiva, hasta las personas más crueles tienen algún escrúpulo.

Même les gens les plus impitoyables ont parfois des scrupules.

That high-minded type can always find an excuse for breaking his own rules. I'd rather do business with an everyday sinner who thinks it's probably to his advantage, in the long run, to tell the truth and keep his promises.