Quotes About Principle

Há momentos, meu jovem, que cada um de nós deve se posicionar em prol da justiça e dos direitos humanos, ou você nunca mais se sentirá limpo outra vez.

This 'ruthless' determination of morphogenetic fields to assert their individuality reflects, in our terminology, the self-assertive principle in development.

I merely wish to point out that some of the major break-throughs in the history of science represent such dramatic tours de force, that 'ripeness' seems a very lame explanation, and 'chance' no explanation at all. Einstein discovered the principle of relativity 'unaided by any observation that had not been available for at least fifty years before'; the plum was overripe, yet for half a century nobody came to pluck it.

Bir inanç ortal??? kana boyuyorsa, o inanca sar?l?p kalmay?n, insan? can?ndan eden bir yasa yanl?? bir yasad?r.YaÅŸam, kad?n?m, yaÅŸam. Tanr?n?n en deÄŸerli lütfudur bize. Hiçbir ilke ne kadar yüksek, ne kadar parlak olursa olsun, kimseye can almak hakk?n? vermez.

Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.

We used to shoot a man who acted like a dog, but honor was real there, you were protecting something. But here? This is the land of the great big dogs, you don't love a man here, you eat him! That's the principle ; the only one we live by.

What ideology, I wondered, was not based on a principled denial of the facts?

Porque ahí está mi nombre! ¡Porque no tendré otro mientras viva! ¡Porque he mentido y he firmado mentiras! ¡Porque no merezco besar el polvo que pisan los pies de los que van a ser ahorcados! ¿Cómo voy a vivir sin mi nombre? ¡Le he entregado el alma, déjeme al menos mi nombre!

The actual facts of morality are too much on my side for me to fear that my theory can ever be replaced or upset by any other.

On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason is Schopenhauer's doctoral dissertation, which he wrote in 1813

Ehrwürdig ist die Wahrheit; nicht was ihr entgegensteht.

The answer, he believed, is that we all seek a cause beyond ourselves. This was, to him, an intrinsic human need. The cause could be large (family, country, principle) or small (a building project, the care of a pet). The important thing was that, in ascribing value to the cause and seeing it as worth making sacrifices for, we give our lives meaning.

Josiah Royce

You can put law on paper but that don't make it right.

Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.

Degrees of ability vary, but the basic principle remains the same: the degree of a man's independence, initiative and personal love for his work determines his talent as a worker and his worth as a man. Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn't done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity. There is no standard of personal dignity except independence.

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.

In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.

Socialism may be established by force, as in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics—or by vote, as in Nazi (National Socialist) Germany. The degree of socialization may be total, as in Russia—or partial, as in England. Theoretically, the differences are superficial; practically, they are only a matter of time. The basic principle, in all cases, is the same.

Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea. That presupposes the ability to think. Thinking is something one doesn't borrow or pawn.

The theory that holds good blood or bad blood as a moral-intellectual criterion , can lead to nothing but torrents of blood in practice.

But he still thought it self-evident that one had to do what was right; he had never learned how people could want to do otherwise; he had learned only that they did.

We are not used to persons who do things simply for the love of god whom they don't believe in.