Quotes About Principle

A man in the right relies easily on his rectitude and therefore goes about unarmed.

The guinea fee, the principle of giving advice and of selling no medicine, the great resolve to keep a distinct barrier between the physician and the apothecary, and, above all, the hatred of the contamination of a bill, were strong in the medical mind of Barsetshire.

Antonin Scalia

All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.

The plot, then, is the first principle, and, as it were, the soul of a tragedy; Character holds the second place.

But justice is the bond of men in states, for the administration of justice, which is the determination of what is just, is the principle of order in political society.

the first principle of all action is leisure.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

And here will apply an observation made before, that whatever is proper to each is naturally best and pleasantest to him: such then is to Man the life in accordance with pure Intellect (since this Principle is most truly Man), and if so, then it is also the happiest.

The law is reason unaffected by desire.

It is more proper that law should govern than any one of the citizens: upon the same principle, if it is advantageous to place the supreme power in some particular persons, they should be appointed to be only guardians, and the servants of the laws.

For if Being is just one, and one in the way mentioned, there is a principle no longer, since a principle must be the principle of some thing or things.

This, by the way, is the reason why we do not allow a man to govern, but Principle, because a man governs for himself and comes to be a despot: but the office of a ruler is to be guardian of the Just and therefore of the Equal.

baseness that does not possess its own starting point [or principle] is always less harmful than that which does possess it, and intellect is such a starting point. It

Je vois les choses de plus haut. Je sens trop ma force pour m'abaisser à de telles intrigues, si au-dessous de mon caractère ; je marche d'une allure plus franche. On me reprocherait avec plus de raison, peut-être, de faire ma politique comme les torrents font leur lit.

The public, not unnaturally, goes upon the principle that he who would heal others must himself be whole.

Dark had meant Dora, had meant words and events sordid with self. Struggling to the light from Dora's darkness, Caro had acquired conscience and equilibrium like a profound, laborious education. Exercise of principle would always require more from her than from persons nurtured in it, for she had learned it by application of will. Caro would never do the right thing without knowing it, as some could.

Mrs. Spencer distrusted letters on principle, because they always seemed to want to entangle her in so many small, disagreeable obligations--visits, or news of old friends she had conveniently forgotten, or family responsibilities that always had to be met quickly and without enjoyment.

the principle which controls magic, and the technique of the animistic method of thought, is "Omnipotence of Thought.

Dupa cum se stie, in domeniul ocultismului este valabil principiul: cazurile negative nu dovedesc nimic.

el antiguo principio de minima non curat praetor, que entre lo bueno y lo malo existe todo un amplio grupo de cosas pequeñas e indiferentes, de las que nadie debe hacerse un reproche.

I did not act from logic, sire, but pinciple. Where is the value of principle if a man refuses to place his faith in it, come what may?

significance of the key, as opposed to the algorithm, is an enduring principle of cryptography. It was definitively stated in 1883 by the Dutch linguist Auguste Kerckhoffs von Nieuwenhof in his book La Cryptographie militaire: "Kerckhoffs' Principle: The security of a cryptosystem must not depend on keeping secret the crypto-algorithm. The security depends only on keeping secret the key.

One must always be prepared to switch sides with justice, that fugitive of the winning camp.