Quotes About Principled

I love anybody who's willing to stick to their own vision, their own voice, who's not easily swayed by money or by financers who are going to tell them what they should do.

I don't really put my name to anything that I don't love and believe in, because there's no point.

Kindly and firmly, she refused to sleep with me. Not even a charity fuck.

You sound like a Renaissance man," I said. "I am," Derek said. "I don't care about how I'm supposed to act because I'm a guy. I do what I do because it's the right thing to do as a human, not by gender." - Saving You Saving Me by Kailin Gow

Hue Jackson is a great guy.

I'm not joining in personal attacks... I don't do personal attacks.

If we do what we think is right, not try to point-score, people will begin to trust us.

Politically I am absolutely honest, which is to say, as honest as possible; which is to say, honest more or less; which is to say, far more honest than the general.

Radicalism is the party of the spirit whose ideas erect signposts to eternity and, in every situation, remind the conscience of the future. It scorns the conditioned and limited, small things and steps, restraint, discretion, and unconsciousness. It is joyful, but only towards what is great; it is reverent, but only towards what is powerful. It is pure and, therefore, self-righteous; principled and, therefore, repressive; fanatical and, therefore, destructive.

I don't like men who treat women like arm candies. He should treat me like an equal or better. And then he should be a good human being. He should see the human side of things. I like men who stand up for what's right and who don't cheat.

I would like to clarify that our opposition to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty is not related to any consideration involving Pakistan. Our position on this important issue is consistent and principled. We are not ready to sign the NPT as it stands today because it is blatantly discriminatory in character.

I will not accept a role just because a big hero stars in it. I am not here to merely dance, run around trees, and be a glam doll.

A trusted man doesn't flip-flop on where he stands. He says what he means and stand where he stands.He's not easily influenced by fear. He's influenced by destiny and will not be taken advantage of.

I want you to answer this question: Why should you settle for anything less than an authentic conservative who will fight for your views and values without an apology? Think about that.

But Lincoln was as immovable as stone. "I am a slow walker," he said, "but I never walk back." He conceded that the final proclamation "has done about as much harm as good.

I think your husband has that something about him that defines honor very narrowly. I fear he is the stuff of which martyrs are made. (Tom Lasser, p. 358)

Truthfulness is the main element of character.

Andrew couldn't stand politics and generally detested the senators and congressmen who paid so exorbitantly for his image-shaping skills. Desie came to admire Andrew for hating his own work--only a highly principled man would stand up and admit to wasting his God-given talent on something so shallow, manipulative and deceptive as a thirty-second campaign commercial.

It's pretty simple, the ethical life. It's just demanding.

I'd never jump on a bandwagon; sometimes people do that and it's not what I wanted to do.

I've never played the jack-it-up kinda game; that's just not who I am.

My diplomatic position will not consist of going and kneeling down in front of George Bush.

I know Kurt Volker definitely to be a man of integrity.

the schoolmaster was one of those men for whom virtuous indignation was a necessity.