Quotes About Principle

We repeat again: strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one's balance in spite of them. Even with the violence of emotion, judgment and principle must still function like a ship's compass, which records the slightest variations however rough the sea.

to introduce into the philosophy of war itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity

In principle I'm an atheist, although in fact I have a lot of faith

What Fermín says is that wise men own up when they sometimes make mistakes, but idiots always make mistakes, even though they never admit it and always think they're right. He calls it his Archimedean Principle of Communicable Imbecilities.' 'Oh, does he?' 'Yes. According to him, an idiot is an animal who doesn't know how to, or is unable to, change his mind.

I found Goddess in myself and I loved her fiercely is saying Female power is strong, the divine principle, the saving and sustaining power, is in herself.

consistent: live what you believe.

Occam's razor

if you're out to change the world, you're bound to make some people angry. That's OK as long as your intentions are right. Don't be a jerk about it, but don't tiptoe around always playing it conservative either.

I found it harder and harder to stick to what was right, when what was expedient made better sense.

I never messed around with gangs.

It is easy to stand for freedom and justice in the midst of peace.

If someone paid me a million dollars to drink a glass of milk, I wouldn't do it; maybe that's because I don't need the money.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

You have your ideology and I have mine.

Any meaningful work for peace must follow the principle of nonduality, the principle of penetration.

My temple followed the Zen tradition; therefore every one of us from the highest monk to the newest member equally followed the principle of no work, no food.

This was a practical application of the principle that a half-feigned and fictitious faith is better than no faith at all.

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. - Thomas Huxley

The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.

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.

But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.

To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association--the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.

In matters of principal stand like a rock.