Quotes about Principles

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

Much of the world's moral compass is broken. The moral north reads south and the moral south reads north.

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

we need to atone for our mistakes as a nation and return to the democratic principles and universal human values from which we have strayed.

Moralizing is reading the Bible not to learn about Jesus but only to learn principles for how to live life as a good person by following the good examples of some people and avoiding the bad examples of others. That kind of approach to the Scriptures is not Christian, because it treats the Bible like any other book with moral lessons that are utterly disconnected from faith in and salvation from Jesus.

a man investigating principles cannot argue with one who denies their existence.

Neither should we forget the mean, which at the present day is lost sight of in perverted forms of government; for many practices which appear to be democratical are the ruin of democracies, and many which appear to be oligarchical are the ruin of oligarchies. Those who think that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state.

For the Principles of the matters of moral action are the final cause of them: now to the man who has been corrupted by reason of pleasure or pain the Principle immediately becomes obscured, nor does he see that it is his duty to choose and act in each instance with a view to this final cause and by reason of it: for viciousness has a tendency to destroy the moral Principle: and so Practical Wisdom must be a state conjoined with reason, true, having human good for its object, and apt to do.

The key thing about life is to be true to a set of beliefs. And to be genuine.

I want to live out principles that became a part of my life in my 40s, 50s, and 60s. One principle is the universality of freedom.

There need to be some absolutes in life.

Honesty is doing what you know or believe is right. Integrity is doing what is right and truthful.