Top 1200 Moral Principles Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.

I want to die a slave to principles. Not to men.

I am very loyal to my principles.

You cannot compromise principles to achieve unity

Strong words are required for weak principles.

I believe in the principles of the Republican Party.

Lack is more in means, than in principles.

One of the greatest of all principles is that men can do what they think they can do.

We believe in the fundamental principles of the European economy.

[The United States is] founded on the principles of Christianity

I'm pretty well grounded in Christian principles.

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

History is the discovering of the principles of human nature.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

A leader is a man who can adapt principles to circumstances.

... when you make it a moral necessity for the young to dabble in all the subjects that the books on the top shelf are written about, you kill two very large birds with one stone: you satisfy precious curiosities, and you make them believe that they know as much about life as people who really know something. If college boys are solemnly advised to listen to lectures on prostitution, they will listen; and who is to blame if some time, in a less moral moment, they profit by their information?

The great difficulty with politics is, that there are no established principles.

It's all very well to have principles, but when it comes to money you have to be flexible.

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

We do literature a real disservice if we reduce it to knowledge or to use, to a problem to be solved. If literature solves problems, it does so by its own inexhaustibility, and by its ultimate refusal to be applied or used, even for moral good. This refusal, indeed, is literature's most moral act. At a time when meanings are manifold, disparate, and always changing, the rich possibility of interpretation--the happy resistance of the text to ever be fully known and mastered--is one of the most exhilarating products of human culture.

Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity.

Sometimes you have to forget your principles and do what’s right.

I act on my principles, whether they're popular or not.

Principles are the territory. Values are maps.

I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.

I've governed from a consistent set of principles

I try to live by the principles the Bible speaks on.

Totalitarian regimes produce a culture and a moral code that is totally different from what happens in a democracy. There are two moral categories in a communist society: honest men and bad men. The "honest" ones resist compromising or collaborating with the regime, while the "bad" are the persecutors and collaborators. You can choose to be on one side or the other, but there is nothing in between. In a normal society, other factors can define who you are. You can be a good worker, sociable, tough, generous, tolerant, collaborative, friendly.

What sets Christian spiritual activity apart from all other religions is that they have knowledge of Christ as their goal; not moral perfection (although you will become more moral), not tranquility (although your life will be remarkably more peaceful). And because of the grace you have in Christ, the disciplines will do nothing to make you more accepted by the Father. You cannot be more accepted than you already are in Christ, since He has already done it all for you!

Men and times change-but principles-never.

Environmental history was . . . born out of a moral purpose, with strong political commitments behind it, but also became, as it matured, a scholarly enterprise that had neither any simple, nor any single, moral or political agenda to promote. Its principal goal became one of deepening our understanding of how humans have been affected by their natural environment through time and, conversely, how they have affected that environment and with what results.

One of the deepest principles of life and leadership: it's not about you.

All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you.

I admire the Islam. There's a lot of good principles in it.

You have to maintain your principles but have a broader appeal.

Principles . . . become modified in practice, by facts.

The money in the schools overpowers the principles of the purpose.

Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles.

Aikido chagnes constantly. What do not change are the principles.

I have always supported measures and principles and not men.

Love and the search for truth are unifying principles.

One of the cardinal principles of Buddhism, the principle of neglect.

The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

Whatever my faults, I have some principles.

For not all things are practicable on identical principles

It is personalities not principles that move the age.

My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism.

The fellow has absolutely no principles."Money and gall" is all he has.

I'm willing to negotiate, but not compromise my core principles.

There is a form of poetic and esthetic and moral genius necessary to make philosophical issues truly incandesce for students, and even though I indeed had some world-class professors myself when I went through the curriculum, I rarely saw such gnosic or concretist/poetic passion among them. I am not speaking of broad histrionics or melodramatic delivery, but rather a moral investment of concern, of loving delight and pathos in exposing one's consciousness to the full horrific and magnificent implications of the materials.

Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite.

We love your adherence to democratic principles.

I am a Quantum Engineer, but on Sundays I Have Principles.

Collaboration and augmentation are the foundational principles of innovation.

No science ever defends its first principles.

Principles have a way of yielding to power.

I am now speaking of rights under the Constitution, and not of moral or religious rights. I do not discuss the morals of the people of Missouri, but let them settle that matter for themselves. I hold that the people of the slaveholding States are civilized men as well as ourselves, that they bear consciences as well as we, and that they are accountable to God and their posterity and not to us. It is for them to decide therefore the moral and religious right of the slavery question for themselves within their own limits.

We represent the moderate teachings and principles of Islam.

You gotta judge a man by his principles.

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.