Quotes About Principle

Panic is the antithesis to good organization. Panic is messy. I am against panic on a point of principle.

Trouthe is the hyeste thyng that men may kepe.

Edmund Burke: "When things go wrong we are always tempted to ask not how we got into this difficulty, but how we are to get out of it . . . to consult our invention and to reject our experience." Yet, Burke concluded, such thinking is "diametrically opposed to every rule of reason, and every good principle of good sense.

Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.

But where men, to the force of appetite and passion, add that of opinion, and are wicked from principle, there will be more men wicked, and those more incurably and outrageously so.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.

Moderation in the pursuit of liberty is no virtue;

Soul (neeš) is not a higher part of humanity standing over against the body but designates the vitality or life principle in a person. God breathed into Adam's nostrils the breath of life, and he became a living neeš (Gen. 2:7).

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

Keep true. Never be ashamed of doing right. Decide what you think is right and stick to it.

In fundamental theory socialism and democracy are almost if not quite one and the same. They both rest at bottom on the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Limits to the wisdom and convenience to the public control there may be: limits of principle there are, upon strict analysis, none." Note well: the community's right is "absolute.

When the Lord sent me forth into the world, He forbade me to put off my hat to any, high or low.

Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.

Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done

never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means

Handle so, daß die Maxime deines Willens jederzeit zugleich als Prinzip einer allgemeinen Gesetzgebung gelten könne.

Inexperienced in the course of world affairs and incapable of being prepared for all the chances that happen in it, I ask myself only 'Can you also will that your maxim should become a universal law?' Where you cannot it is to be rejected...

Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law

By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.