Quotes About Principle

But there is also a deeply inescapable kind of fence-sitting, which I shall call PAP (Permanent Agnosticism in Principle).

Positively the principle may be expressed: In matters of the intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard to any other consideration. And negatively: In matters of the intellect, do not pretend that conclusions are certain which are not demonstrated or demonstrable.

He knew what they said of him locally: Oh, he likes to keep himself to himself. The phrase was descriptive, not judgemental. It was a principle of life the English still respected. And it wasn't just about privacy, about an Englishman's home—even a pebbledash semi—being his castle. It was about something more: about the self, and where you kept it, and who, if anyone, was allowed to fully see it.

between the principle and its implementation often lay some anguish.

Integrity is like virginity: once lost, never recoverable

Perhaps that is the true definition of pragmatism – an ability to deceive oneself and so turn one's back on principle, law or custom if they stand in the way of what one wants.

But was it cowardice to call out a lie, to insist on truth?

The substance of every true and stable political organism is something resembling an Order, a Männerbünd in charge of the principle of the imperium, comprising men who see loyalty as the basis of their honor.

Although the Communists were opposed to torture in theory and on principle, officials were told that they should not intervene if the peasants wished to vent their anger in passionate acts of revenge.

Aquí fundamos Comercio Pánico con el objetivo de sistematizar los crímenes y así acelerar el proceso de desarrollo social. Esperamos que, con base en este principio, todos nuestros empleados colaboren orgullosamente con el aumento de la felicidad social.

The "principle of charity" and the "science of compassion" are both crucial to any attempt to understand discourse and ideas that initially seem baffling, distressing, and alien;

Golden rule is not a notional doctrine that you either agree with, or make yourself believe in. It is a method and the only adequate test of any method is to put it into practice.

Because what could be more Casablanca? Suddenly Harlow saw that what she'd always wanted was a man of principle. A man of action. A domestic terrorist. Every girl's dream, if she can't have a vampire.

Because what could be more Casablanca? Suddenly Harlow saw that what she'd always wanted was a man of principle. A man of action. A domestic terrorist. Every girl's dream, if she can't have a vampire. (Chapter four pg 202)

Two wrongs—not equal to or more than a right (...) Good luck with quantifying a unit of right or wrong.

I regard anticommunism as a matter of principle an evil even greater than communism itself.

It would be very difficult, if not altogether impossible, to establish any principle upon which the justice or expedience of capital punishment could be founded in a society glorying in its civilization.

But money itself is a commodity, an external object, capable of becoming the private property of any individual. Thus social power becomes the private power of private persons. The ancients therefore denounced money as subversive of the economic and moral order of things.[106] Modern society, which, soon after its birth, pulled Plutus by the hair of his head from the bowels of the earth,[107] greets gold as its Holy Grail, as the glittering incarnation of the very principle of its own life.

No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him.

A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn.

The brave man seeks not popular applause, Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause; Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does the best he can, Force is of brutes, but honor is of man.

Nonviolence is the virtue of the manly. The coward is innocent of it.

A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.

Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is wrong. There is no other time.