Quotes About Principle

The man of conservative temperament believes that a known good is not lightly to be surrendered for an unknown better.

If something is wrong, it matters not if a thousand men are for it; you must still oppose it. If something is just, no amount of popular outcry should stay you from your course.

No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former only. If our government ever fails, it will be from this weakness.

It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact that equality is an ethical and not a biological principle

For that which you mention concerning liberty of conscience, I meddle not with any man's conscience.

Conscience in the soul is the root of all true courage. If a man would be brave, let him learn to obey his conscience.

The franchise and the virus work on the same principle, what thrives in one place will thrive in another. You just have to find a sufficiently virulent business plan, condense it into a three-ring binder ? its DNA ? Xerox it, and embed it in the fertile line of a well-traveled highway, preferably one with a left turn lane. Then the growth will expand until it runs up against its property lines.

The problem with those honorable men," Avi says, "is that they expect everyone else to be honorable in the same way.

All fine and simple in principle. The details very complicated, of course.

If we assume that the arms grew outwards from the center, then there must be something in that center that imbues each of the six arms with the same organizing principle

The franchise and the virus work on the same principle: what thrives in one place will thrive in another. You just have to find a sufficiently virulent business plan, condense it into a three-ring binder—its DNA—xerox it, and embed it in the fertile lining of a well-traveled highway, preferably one with a left-turn lane. Then the growth will expand until it runs up against its property lines.

The question, as always, is whether the organizing principle is added to the gross matter to animate it, as yeast is thrown into beer, or inheres in the relationships among the parts themselves.

For the stuff of which we are made is just the common stuff of the world, viz. ordinary gross matter, so that a materialist might say, we are no different from rocks; and yet our matter is imbued with some organizing principle that endows us with identities, so that I may send a letter to Daniel Waterhouse in London in the full confidence that, like a smoke-ring traversing a battle-field, he has traveled a great distance, and persisted for a long time, and yet is still the same man.

And so the species is announcing, "We evolve by the principle of…well, evolution." But they never say what that principle IS, because they have confused the process and the principle. The species, on the other hand, which has become clear that evolution is a process—but a process over which the species has control—has not confused "process" with "principle," but consciously chooses a principle which it uses to guide and direct its process.

You are right. Evolution is "survival of the fittest." That is the process. Yet do not confuse "process" and "principle.

you cannot spontaneously levitate and hover above the ground, whether or not you are seated in the lotus position. Although, in principle, you could perform this stunt if you managed to let loose a powerful and sustained exhaust of flatulence.

You could, in principle, perform this stunt if you managed to let forth a powerful and sustained exhaust of flatulence.

Since everything warmer than absolute zero radiates heat, detecting infrared at a distance means, in principle, detecting everything.

He had a clean shot, but he also had an informal rule of trying not to kill anyone within an hour of landing in a new country

Joe Smith had a Russian knocking on his door asking to be put up on the sly, Joe would be on the horn to the FBI in a flash. Joe does that because he thinks it's right, not because he thinks the FBI will torture him if he doesn't.

The principle of limited liability was implied: shareholders stood to lose only their investment in the company and no other assets in the event that it failed.15

first networked polity. 'In no country in the world,' declared Tocqueville, 'has the principle of association been more successfully used or applied to a greater multitude of objects than in America':

When you see a Minister thinking more of himself than of you, and in all his actions seeking his own ends, that man can never be a good Minister or one that you can trust. For he who has the charge of the State committed to him, ought not to think of himself, but only of his Prince, and should never bring to the notice of the latter what does not directly concern him.

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