Quotes About Principle

It is not true to say that the sun is only incandescent gas, although this is an aspect of its reality. It is also as true to say that the sun is the symbol of the intelligible principle in the Universe and this element is as much an aspect of its ontological reality as the physical features discovered by modem astronomy.

Yes, each religion has to provide instructions for its followers as to how to live in our present- day world. But to take this change itself as the ''principle'' which should drive us on, as if we were picked up like a horse and driven against our will, that is not only against religion, but also against everything for which the Western ideas of liberty and freedom have stood.

John Wesley, who founded the Methodist movement, wrote, "One of the principle rules of religion is to lose no occasion of serving God. And since he is invisible to our eyes, we are to serve him in our neighbor; which he receives as if done to himself in person, standing visibly before us.

Brave doesn't mean 'fearless,' you know. It means doing the right thing even if you're frightened.

Right is right, even when all are against it, and wrong is wrong, even when all are for it.

If you believe in truth and cared enough to obtain it, you had to be prepared actively to suffer for it.

I have often inquired of myself what great principle or idea it was that kept this confederacy so long together. It was not the mere matter of the separation of the colonies from the mother land, but that something in the Declaration giving liberty, not alone to the people of this land, but hope to the world for all future time. It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance.

Corruption is never compulsory.

I am always in awe of people who devote their lives to a good cause and are brave enough to take a stance, though it may be controversial in their time.

Moral self-infatuation has its own corruptions, after all. With time, almost every other principle of the magazine acquired an ironic echo, a sort of cackling aftermath.

Figure a man's only good for one oath at a time. I took mine to the Confederate States of America.

As the lesser is always found within the greater, so this principle holds true with regards to time and the eternal.

And I think, not for the first time, that what is immoral is not always wrong.

Do the right thing. Not just when it's convenient for you, but all the time. Words to live by.

Always do the right and be the right, Whatever the circumstances.

My guiding principle is that prosperity can be shared. We can create wealth together. The global economy is not a zero-sum game.

If there's a simple, easy design principle that binds everything together, it's probably about starting with the people.

Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.

Not by force of arms are civilizations held together, but by subtle threads of moral and intellectual principle.

Ideology and communication more often than not run into each other rather than complement each other. Principle and communication work together. Ideology and communication often work apart.

He had been raised, after all, to stand alone and always to do what he believed to be right.

It was the safe thing to do, but that did not make it right.

In 1913, America had a professor-president in the White House -- a man of intelligence and principle, elected to clean up the corruption that had flourished in the much of politics for so long. Public health and public schools were beating back the darkness in slums and settlements. The poor were lifted up and the proud brought down as Progressives reined in the power of Big Money.

Spoke again,and this time he understood, Someone's father once her that it was better to die than to live wrongly. I say: better to live rightly