Quotes About Principle

lo correcto siempre funciona y siempre triunfa.

There is no such thing as duty. If you know that a thing is right, you want to do it. If you don't want to do it—it isn't right. If it's right and you don't want to do it—you don't know what right is and you're not a man.

Although the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing.

What I could not support was a dumb war, a rash war, a war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics.

And yet I find myself returning again and again to my mother's simple principle—How would that make you feel?—as a guidepost for my politics.

the substance of patriotism mattered far more than the symbol.

Could I really hope to find common ground with a party that increasingly seemed to consider opposition to me to be its unifying principle, the objective that superseded all others?

But I had my legs beneath me now and was convinced I was right, particularly on the more general principle that America shouldn't be afraid to engage its adversaries or push for diplomatic solutions to conflict.

As a matter of principle, I didn't believe a president should ever publicly whine about criticism from voters—it's what you signed up for in taking the job—and I was quick to remind both reporters and friends that my white predecessors had all endured their share of vicious personal attacks and obstructionism.

Integrity isn't something you have in some parts of your life and not in others. You either have it, or you don't.

Truth is objective. A man should be respected for telling it, not threatened.

If Doc Homer found out, he would construct some punishment to cure us of superstition. We agreed with him in principle—we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.

Barry Eisler

Barry Eisler

Barry Eisler

Barry Eisler

The fifth principle [of Arne Naess's principles of deep ecology] states that the flourishing of both human and non-human life requires a substantial decrease of human population. As I said, we are a plague, and our population is out of control. And we don't want to die.

My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right." In

Exceptionalism"—the view that the United States has a right to impose its will because it knows more, sees farther, and lives on a higher moral plane than other nations—was to them not a platitude, but the organizing principle of daily life and global politics.

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

Physical strength is never what makes a man manly. Rather, it is moral strength that identifies the true man

Independent will is our capacity to act. It gives us the power to transcend our paradigms, to swim upstream, to rewrite our scripts, to act based on principle rather than reacting based on emotion or circumstance.

The contrasting principle of growth and hope throughout history is the discovery that "I am the creative force of my life

Only basic goodness gives life to technique.