Quotes About Principle

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

At the social/political/ juridical, etc., level, the organizing principle was less to do with games and more to do with the nature of taboos—enormously powerful, often enormously arbitrary, and (crucially) regularly quietly broken, without undermining the fact of the taboo itself. That last element, I think, is sometimes underestimated in the discussions of cultural norms, where they are both asserted and breached. Both those elements are foundational. — author interview

Anyway, half of them are police agents. It's the first principle, isn't it? Whoever's arguing fiercest for violence is the cop.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

This is how concreteness helps us understand—it helps us construct higher, more abstract insights on the building blocks of our existing knowledge and perceptions. Abstraction demands some concrete foundation. Trying to teach an abstract principle without concrete foundations is like trying to start a house by building a roof in the air.

human-scale principle allows us to bring our intuition to bear in assessing whether the content of a message is credible.

Intuition is knowing through direct inner perception. This wisdom or knowingness must be translated or stepped down into concepts, principles, and words. This manifests as the ajna chakra or understanding. Knowing something through intuition requires only seconds or minutes. But translating intuition into understanding, manifesting as concepts, principles, and words may take weeks, months or years.

before Isaac Newton, billions of people had seen apples or objects fall to the ground. But it was Isaac Newton who formulated the Law of Gravity. In ancient India, hundreds of millions or billions of grandmothers healed their grandchildren with branches or brooms, but they did not understand the principle behind what they were doing. It was necessary for MCKS to explain and put emphasis on the very important concept of diseased energy.

The Principle of Internal Conductivity states that the conductivity of the body and the subtle bodies depends on the psychological attitude of the person receiving the projected energy. Super internal conductivity is called faith.

He said a political writer must be careful. He quoted Auden: A writer's politics are more dangerous to him than his cupidity. He said, Political sentimentality is as bad as any other kind. You have to acknowledge ambiguity, complexity. There is a kind of death that creeps into your prose when you're trying to illustrate a principle, no matter how worthy.

regard as nothing place and office, when either is to be attained or held at the sacrifice of honor.

Like I said, some guys have a code they live by, some guys don't. John Ceepack? He has a code. Me? I'm working on it.

It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards.

He talked about the party line the way Catholics talk about the Immaculate Conception

Upright and do right make all right.

Upright and do right makes all right.

Compassion is a fundamental principle of meditation. Meditation is not a narcissistic, self-interested path. It provides the foundation for love, integrity, compassion, respect and sensitivity (Feldman, 1998, p.2).

It is better to die for the truth than to live for a lie. Let it cost me what it will, I will not depart from the truth, even to save my own or my father's life. I will obey God, and trust Him for the rest.

Physicists, irrespective of their belief, may invoke God when they feel issues of principle are at stake because the God of the physicists is cosmic order.

The uncertainty relation tells us that an infinitely large energy corresponds to infinitely small distances.

Täpselt samuti on lugu kolmainsuse, selle jumaliku kolmnurgaga: kui lisada veel üks isik, siis pole see enam kolmainsus, vaid ruut, ja usu aluspõhimõte on rikutud!

The minority is always right.

You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.