Quotes About Principle

The word for mother, umm, is the root of the words for "source, nation, mercy, first principle, rich harvest; stupid, illiterate, parasite, weak of character, without opinion." In

I am soft sift 25 In an hourglass — at the wall Fast, but mined with a motion, a drift, And it crowds and it combs to the fall; I steady as a water in a well, to a poise, to a pane, But roped with, always, all the way down from the tall 30 Fells or flanks of the voel, a vein Of the gospel proffer, a pressure, a principle, Christ's gift.

El reconocimiento de marcas reduce las opciones; y para tomar la decisión final se añade el principio del segundo precio menos elevado. La base lógica es que si uno ha oído hablar de una empresa, seguramente es porque sus productos son buenos.

The same principle that forbids me to lie does not allow me to tell the truth.

Io non ho mai sentito tanto di vivere quanto amando, benché tutto il resto del mondo fosse per me come morto. L'amore è la vita e il principio vivificante della natura, come l'odio il principe distruggente e mortale. Le cose son fatte per amarsi scambievolmente, e la vita nasce da questo.

Il mondo può progredire e in effetti progredisce per effetto di azioni umane positive, per effetto dell'impegno, per effetto della non-indifferenza. Il principio vale per le azioni globali e per le azioni locali e noi dobbiamo tenerne conto.

American government was founded on a belief and a faith in God and in doing what is right and just.

He who is silent and bows his head dies every time he does so. He who speaks aloud and walks with his head held high dies only once.

Un duro non sarà mai un dritto. Il duro, quando se la vede brutta, spara. Il dritto non si mette mai nella condizione di dover sparare.

I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, I won't be laid-a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people and I require the same of them.

I sincerely believe with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.

Bush violated FISA [...] because he wanted to violate the law in order to establish the general 'principle' that he was not bound by the law, to show that he has the power to break the law, that he is more powerful than the law.

But even when the principle of equal treatment was betrayed, American leaders in every era have emphatically affirmed it, not so much out of hypocrisy as out of aspiration. Indeed, for those who were devoted to justice, the persistence of inequality was precisely what made equality before the law so imperative.

The principle which protects personal writings and all other personal productions, not against theft and physical appropriation, but against publication in any form, is in reality not the principle of private property, but that of an inviolate personality.

It also reminds me of an organizing principle: Anybody who is experiencing something is more expert in it than the experts.

Do it because it is right not because you believe it is.

Go with the truth, the right not what suits you. Because what suits you doesn't suit you if it's not right, the truth.

The most powerful man is the most steadfast in truth.

There are battles we choose not to fight. Not because we are weak but because we are strong. Not because they are hard, but because they are wrongly structured.

Those who don't value the truth don't really value success because the truth is the foundation of success.

It is my faith and conviction that the Constitution came not alone of the brain and purpose of man, but of the inspiration of God.

Men and women of integrity understand intrinsically that theirs is the precious right to hold their heads in the sunlight of truth, unashamed before anyone. Embodied within this simple principle and character trait rests the foundational virtue of every person and of every society.

Simple honesty is so remarkable a quality. It is of the very essence of Integrity.

Chang despised authority on principle, for even when veiled by the rubric of practical necessity or the weight of tradition he could not see institutional power as anything but an expression of arbitrary personal will, and it galled him profoundly.