Quotes About Principle

One cannot play fast and loose with what one knows to be true.

The solution lies in the principle of shared value, which involves creating economic value in a way that also creates value for society by addressing its needs and challenges. Businesses must reconnect company success with social progress".

There can therefore be no such thing as annihilation. if evil exists, it can only be an aberration of the divine Law, and not as a principle.

Right is its own defense.

I can't abide injustice.

E la somma degli angoli di un triangolo non può variare a seconda degli interessi della Curia

Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favor of war, pestilence and famine as permanent features of human life.

Strict vegetarianism is with us a principle, because we believe it to be best in every way, not only for ourselves but for all the world around us.

To do what you believe in, that is the course of action all honest men and women should follow, even to the death. But to spread such lies only for money, that is unforgivable.

Social psychologist Susan Fiske writes,"It is a simple principle: People pay attention to those who control their outcomes. In an effort to predict and possibly influence what is going to happen to them, people gather information about those with power."11

You shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.

I wasn't built to look the other way because the law demanded it. The law might be wrong.

The principle behind discipleship does involve one person influencing another, which does result in a change in heart and mind.

Atheism is a religion like abstinence is a sex position.

I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.

Another principle: Although we all have at least the potential to make more money in the future, we can never go back and recapture time that is now gone. So it makes no sense to let opportunities pass us by for fear of squandering our money. Squandering our lives should be a much greater worry.

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.

I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

In a country built on the dreams and accomplishments of an immigrant population, a particularly severe wound is inflicted on that principle when an immigration matter is not conducted in accord with the best of our tradition of courtesy and fairness.

Also, there was a Princeton study that found that visual clutter reduces your ability to focus and process information.

So while [Upholds] live by the motto, 'Discipline brings freedom,' [Rebels] live by the motto: 'Freedom is my discipline.