Quotes About Principle

Fiat justitia et pereat mundus.Let justice be done, though the world perish.

El capitalismo es detestable. El comunismo es peor. El capitalismo te permite a un tiempo llevar vida de capitalista y renegar del capitalismo, mientras que el comunismo es por principio incompatible con cualquier forma de disidencia.

Ar fi o mare nebunie s? vrei s? te lupÅ£i cu un duÅŸman pentru care lupta în sine ÅŸi scandalul conteaz? mai mult chiar decât victoria ÅŸi înfrângerea duÅŸmanului.

It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm.

So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.

The second is the release from the principle of authority, that is, from any obligation to obey parents, the Church, the state, and whoever places restrictions in the name of the common good. The

Since no individual acting separately can lawfully use force to destroy the rights of others, does it not logically follow that the same principle also applies to the common force that is nothing more than the organized combination of the individual forces?

We need not be surprised at this. On a wrong road, inconsistency is inevitable; if it were not so, mankind would be sacrificed. A false principle never has been, and never will be, carried out to the end.

The system of protection and the colonial system are, then, only two aspects of one and the same theory. To hinder our fellow-citizens from buying from foreigners, and to force foreigners to buy from our fellow-citizens, are only two consequences of one and the same principle.

If abnegation has indeed so many charms for you, why do you fail to practice it in private life? Society will be grateful to you, for someone, at least, will reap the fruit; but to desire to impose it upon mankind as a principle is the very height of absurdity, for the abnegation of all is the sacrifice of all, which is evil erected into a theory.

On a wrong road, inconsistency is inevitable; if it were not so, mankind would be sacrificed. A false principle never has been, and never will be, carried out to the end.

And what is this liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world?

François Goyot de Pitavals

In the interests of Truth, I would lie.

There are those today that say we must do as others do, that we must conform to the world [to win it], that we must swim with the tide, that we must move with the crowd. But the believer should say, "No.

The underlying principle of all Satan's tactics is deception. He is a crafty and clever camouflager.

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, in small things as well as in big things.

The Pilgrims . . . put their ideals ahead of all material considerations. It is not surprising that the Pilgrims had little and succeeded, while we have much and are in danger of failing. No civilization can make progress unless some great principle is generously mixed into the mortar of its foundations in life.

What stirs God most is not physical suffering but sin. All too often we are more afraid of physical pain than of moral wrong. The cross is the standing evidence of the fact that holiness is a principle for which God would die.

I had not been preaching long before I decided that I would never preach to another segregated audience in any situation over which we had control. This was long before the Supreme Court decision of 1954. I felt this was the Christian position and I could do no other.

Let's face it, we're talking fear here. Fear of the unknown and fear of a known that makes no real sense without some unifying principle that allows us to sleep at night. Organized religions organize themselves around that fear. Each claims to be the one true way to get to heaven. The ultimate fear, of course, is--which door is going to be the gateway to heaven? Door number one or door number two or door number three?

Creation is the production of order. What a simple, but, at the same time, comprehensive and pregnant principle is here! Plato could tell his disciples no ultimate truth of more pervading significance.

It is held, it is true, and very justly, by the principal of our ethical writers, that human laws are binding upon men's consciences. But if that were the only, or most forcible obligation, the good only would regard the laws, and the bad would set them at defiance.

My point is, Justin, a hero tells the truth, no matter what people might think about him. And you've always done that. From day one.