Quotes About Principle

The principle of effective government is meritocracy; the principle of democracy is popular participation. These two principles can be made to work together, but there is always an underlying tension between them.

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.

When a fellow says it hain't the money but the principle o' the thing, it's th' money.

Every living body—vegetable, lower animal, human—has a life principle, a soul.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.

There is nothing so American as our national parks. The scenery and the wildlife are native. The fundamental idea behind the parks is native. It is, in brief, that the country belongs to the people, that it is in process of making for the enrichment of the lives of all of us. The parks stand as the outward symbal of the great human principle.

One must not cheat anybody, not even the world of one's triumph.

Admiral Stephen Decatur's widely publicized toast in 1816, "our country, right or wrong," struck Adams as not only discordant but immoral.

The modern principle of representation – that each individual should participate in the state – grew out of the forests of Germany and will eventually dominate the entire modern world (VD I, 533/203).

He wrangled late into the night with his senior tutor in theology over the concept of the doctrine of the lesser evil and the higher goal; that the end may justify the means and yet not damn the soul, providing the parameters of the impermissible are never breached.

The seven social evils are politics without principle, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce and industry without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.

Die größte öffentliche Aufmerksamkeit erhält hier die fundamentalistische Reaktion, die eine Versöhnung zwischen Glaube und Wissen prinzipiell ausschließt und die auf dem Vorrang des Glaubens vor dem Wissen beharrt.

If I met you in a scissor fight, I'd cut off both your wings on principle alone.

I consider myself to be a man of principle. But, what man does not? Even the cutthroat, I have noticed, considers his actions "moral" after a fashion. Perhaps another person, reading of my life, would name me a religious tyrant. He could call me arrogant. What is to make that man's opinion any less valid than my own? I guess it all comes down to one fact: In the end, I'm the one with the armies.

I believe that my own morality—which answers only to my heart—is more sure and true than the morality of those who do right only because they fear retribution.

the end, I must proclaim that no good can be achieved of false means. For the substance of our existence is not in the achievement, but in the method.

I consider myself to be a man of principle. But, what man does not? Even the cutthroat, I have noticed, considers his actions "moral" after a fashion.

Don't just act because you can; act because it's the right thing to do. If you keep that in mind, you'll be all right.

Love is the motivating principle by which the Lord leads us along the way towards becoming like Him, our perfect example. Our way of life, hour by hour, must be filled with the love of God and love for others.

And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter, - we need never read of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications?

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

To be right is more honorable than to be law abiding.

A lawyer's truth is not Truth. It is consistency, or consistent expediency