Quotes About Principle

Some things are worth going to jail for, Victor," replied Bowden in an even tone. "As LiteraTecs we swore to uphold and defend the written word—not indulge a crazed politician's worst paranoic fantasies.

Notice, again, it is not what one does that saves him—when it is judged, the tree is already a good tree—that's why it bears good fruit (its fruit-bearing doesn't make it a good tree). One's works identify him as a good tree, wheat, a sheep, a Christian. Conversely, the bad tree, goat, tare and the unsaved man (like a child) is also "known by his doings" (Prov. 20:11). See Romans 2:6-8 in the light of this principle.

This is the reappearance of the principle of Evil in a new guise. No morality or guilt is implied, however: the principle of Evil is simply synonymous with the principle of reversal, with the turns of fate. In systems undergoing total positivization - and hence desymbolization - evil is equivalent, in all its forms, to the fundamental rule of reversibility.

Such is the well-tempered application of the principle of evil. If the system fails to be everything, nothing will remain of it. If thought fails to be nothing, something will remain of it.

Right is right, even if you're alone.

what you risk reveals what you value...

I call every man intolerant from principle, who conceives no man can be a man of virtue and probity, who does not believe exactly what he does, and unmercifully consigns to perdition all those who do not think like himself. On Providence

THE STRONGEST IS NEVER STRONG enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty. Hence the right of the strongest, which, though to all seeming meant ironically, is really laid down as a fundamental principle.

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emotion is first of all and in principle an accident

Character comes from following our highest sense of right, from trusting ideas without being sure they'll work.

I think there's an invisible principle of living too. If we believe we're guided through every step of our lives, we are. It's a lovely sight, watching it work.

The true idealist pursues what his heart says is right in a way that his head says will work.

Work is important to me. I want to do things for principle, not just for the sake of doing them.

I don't mind paying people more for something if we're getting more. But just to change a deal because you're greedy and you want more? No. I'm not gonna go along with that.

[The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.

A cardinal principle of the gospel is to prepare for the day of scarcity. Work, industry, frugality are part of the royal order of life.

The principle of majority does not work when differences on fundamentals are involved.

The people's right to change what does not work is one of the greatest principles in our system of government

We must each prepare ourselves for every good work that might come to us and then accept the principle that revelation, not aspiration, is the basis for our respective callings.

That's all well and good in practice, but how does it work in theory?

I'm a fatalist.... I consider I am rejected in principle. My work is and, through my work, I am. If it's accepted, it's miraculous or the result of a misunderstanding.

My work is never perfect. It always can be better but I just believe that we need to achieve a really high level of excellence. I don't believe in the "Good Enough" principle as a Christian.

I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.