Quotes About Principles

We must live with our own conscience. Each and every one of us must live with his own conscience.

The Ten Commandments are the lowest possible standard of humane living.

Unlike Grand Hotel and Titanic, but like The Wild Party and Sweet Smell of Success, our last special show was a failure. However, the previous two titles at least ran a few months. Amour (2002) lasted two weeks. This is a historically instructive show even so in its return to first principles, as a modern version of what Jacques Offenbach was doing when he invented musical comedy in the 1850s and '60s: not in his format but in his spirit.

I'm still not ready to throw away my moral compass, even if I can't read it.

The real danger is that the good guys will blindly keep doing bad things that they don't see as bad.

While legal lines sharply define what can and cannot be done, our personal sense of right and wrong doesn't necessarily hew so closely to them.

I have ruined, perhaps, my political career. But that is a little matter; I have retained something which is to me of great value Ã¢â'¬â€œ I can still walk about the world with my head erect.'235 'My dear Duff,' Churchill wrote to him, 'Your speech was one of the finest Parliamentary performances I have ever heard. It was admirable in form, massive in argument and shone with courage and public spirit.'236

None has suffered more cruelly than the Jew the unspeakable evils wrought on the bodies and spirit of men by Hitler and his vile regime. The Jew bore the brunt of the Nazis' first onslaught upon the citadels of freedom and human dignity . . . Once again, at the appointed time, he will see vindicated those principles of righteousness which it was the glory of his fathers to proclaim to the world.

I think, by applying our production principles. First, we must identify our limiting step: what is the "egg" in our work?

Those who follow a code are often respected and held in high esteem

She's a sorceress. An enchantress and a woman in one; in a word, an alien species that doesn't submit to rational understanding, and functions according to mechanisms and principles incomprehensible to ordinary men.

In tutto il mondo l'onore è sceso di prezzo, perché al giorno d'oggi è una merce difficile da vendere

While public opinion might sway back and forth, right and wrong do not.

Our fundamental economic beliefs, which we have elevated from a conviction based on observation to an unquestioned truism, is that the free market is the best of all economic systems—the freer the better. Our generation has seen the decisive victory of free-market principles over planned economies. So we stick with this belief, largely oblivious to emerging evidence that while free markets beat planned economies, there may be room for a modification that is even better.

Out there's a moral law. Within I've only stars!

I found I generally preferred the old leftie, radical-activist types who stood charmingly and unfashionably on the side of substance.

People feel at home with low moral standards. It is scruples that put them off.

Swing voters are more appropriately known as the 'idiot voters' because they have no set of philosophical principles. By the age of fourteen, you're either a Conservative or a Liberal if you have an IQ above a toaster.

There are a lot of westerns that deal with people standing up for their principles, and that is the predominant theme that has been in my films.

You cannot hurl textbook principles of right and wrong in the age of fake news, WhatsApp campaigns and personality-centric cult politics. Elections are not a moral science class.

All too often, we see politicians on both sides desperately twisting themselves into partisan-hack pretzels, for the sole purpose of defending their own 'team' or attacking the other, without any thought to principles or values whatsoever.

The challenge is always before us. Whenever we lose sight of the principles that mattered to our founders we run into trouble.

Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for - because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.