Quotes About Principle

Those, no doubt, are in some way fortunate who have brought themselves, or have been brought by others, to obey some ultimate principle before the bar of which all problems can be brought. Single-minded monists, ruthless fanatics, men possessed by an all-embracing coherent vision do not know the doubts and agonies of those who cannot wholly blind themselves to reality.

You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it.

That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.

Power said to the world, "You are mine." The world kept it prisoner on her throne. Love said to the world, "I am thine." The world gave it the freedom of her house.

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.

Self-love is a principle of action; but among no class of human beings has nature so profusely distributed this principle of life and action as through the whole sensitive family of genius.

A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably.

If love or non-violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces.

Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverable: namely, that human reason lives by turning the friction of material forces into the light of ideal goods.

The principle objectives in life are love, the creation and enjoyment if aesthetic experience, the pursuit of knowledge. Love comes a long way first.

Every unjust act, even committed for the sake of a just cause, carries its curse with it.

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have the right to do and what is the right thing to do." Potter Stewart, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, 1958–1981. Section 5, Grave 40-2, Arlington National Cemetery.

We were taught that, even if we wore a uniform, that our first sworn duty was to our conscience, no matter what the consequences.

When choosing the lesser of two evils, always remember, it is still an evil.

The right heart with the wrong ritual is better than the wrong heart with the right ritual. Some

You will never go wrong doing what is right.

Adopt the motto—It doesn't matter who's right, but what's right.

If you're for the right thing, you do it without thinking.

See, you don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing, then you do it without thinking.

Don't do anything that you think is wrong. Just do what you think is right, and then be ready to back it up even with your life.

You don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing, then you do it without thinking.

See you don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing you do it without thinking.

Mother whispered, 'See, you don't have to think about doing the right thing, If you're for the right thing, then you do it without thinking.

Mother whispered, "See, you don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing, then you do it without thinking.