Quotes About Principle

The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.

I am not a pacifist in terms of turning the other cheek.

I was conscripted to military service, and my gut feeling was to refuse to serve. I did not want to kill other people. This seemed to me wrong, if not in principle, so at least in practice.

I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti want to see the vote of the people respected.

My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to some higher authority before carrying out the use of violence.

And I told you, I'm not going to pursue another man's girlfriend. You want to talk honor. There it is in its purest form

The war we are fighting until victory or the bitter end is in its deepest sense a war between Christ and Marx. Christ: the principle of love. Marx: the principle of hate.

I am a Marxist-Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.

We are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed, in defiance of international good faith, by the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.

I did only what my duty demanded. I could have taken no other course without dishonor.

Sir, if you think that I am that kind of a man, you have missed your mark. I would rather die a thousand deaths than betray a friend or be false to duty.

Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.

I don't believe in war, I believe in the principle of deterrence.

The underlying principle of Masonry is the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. In this war we are engaging in upholding these principles and our enemies are attacking them.

I will not get into a pissing contest with that skunk [Joseph McCarthy].

Chivalry - ...a romantic idealism closely related to Christianity, which makes honor the guiding principle of conduct. Connected with this is the ancient concept of the gentleman.

Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.

What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s.

The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War.

It is a principle incorporated into the settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is better than tribute.

Father spoke up and said that he was an abolitionist of the old stock, that the blacks were his brothers and his equals, and that he would rather see the union dissolved and the

every American is governed only by the principle of personal responsibility and that his or her most important freedom is the absolute freedom to flourish or fail.

To trace the development of mind from earliest times...requires...not a categorical concept, but a functional one.... The most promising operational principle for this purpose is the principle of individuation.[p. 310]" "[yet she also says:]...we have no physical model of this endless rhythm of individuation and involvement, we do have its image in the world of art, most purely in dance;...this dialectic of vital continuity...[p. 355]

Si la causa no era honorable, ¿cómo podía ser un honor participar en ella?