Quotes About Values

Secularism does not accept many things as absolutes. Its principal objectives are pleasure and self-interest. Often, those who embrace secularism have a different look about them.

When we all start to wake up and realize that our comforts are fleeting, and more money is never going to save this world, maybe, just maybe, will we be able to return back to the grace of America's principal values.

I get angry at a principle, not a person.

It's not a principle unless it costs you something.

Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no principle, however immaculate, that has not had its compromising manipulator.

Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.

My kids aren't celebrities. They never made that bargain. We were offered a lot of money to sell pictures of our kids when they were born. You'll notice there aren't any. I make no judgment about people who decide differently; a lot of them give the money to charity. For me, it was a matter of principle.

We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs.

So I really did stop and change what I saw I was about, and really try to put that principle into play as the center of everything - my friendships, my marriage, my career, my family, my way of being in the world. And that changed everything for me.

The question I should have asked is not what is the rule, but what is the principle.

Let me tell you, if you're ever making a decision and the principle reason you'll do it is because of money, then it is absolutely the incorrect decision.

We don't need bipartisanship, we need application of principle.

I want a group of Green MPs who will demonstrate to Canadians that it's possible to be respectful, ethical, hard working and actually stick to principle.

At the end of the day, I'm big on principle and loyalty.

I'm a principle liberty, rule-of-law Conservative.

What I am is a principled conservative individual who believes in fiscal responsibility.

My focus has always been: I can be an incredibly conservative, principled idea person, but that doesn't mean I have to shout at people.

It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.

I believe that this is the key, the principle itself is the key to conservatism. Because in many ways if you do not have a principled base you do not have policy and if you do not have policy in many ways you do not have an ideology.

I'm not an angry kind of person. What I am is a principled person.

Dad was a very, very principled man, and he hated any kind of story where the baddies get away with it.

I'm a proud conservative and firmly believe in a principled approach to foreign policy - one that builds on our values and interests as a country. This approach has made me a resolute and strong friend to Israel.

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.