Quotes About Principle

The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development it's love - that one principle.

A person without her or his own truth ain't a person at all, Ida said. Anybody who tells you different—is a jackass, and no longer deserves to be called human being.

In our democracy no man should tell another man to break the law, nor should any man break the law to by-pass Parliament. But a person who is punished for breaking an unjust law may if he is sincere and his cause wins public sympathy, create a public demand to have that unjust law changed through Parliament. This is the first and most fundamental principle of British democracy. It has a deep moral significance. Our religious and political liberties rest upon it.

A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.

I pledge no fudge of compromise', said Arthur Scargill, 'and no carrots of redundancy'. That would make a nice epitaph for him. 'He pledged no fudge'.

Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.

I only know what I believe.

There is another Brain Principle to go with 'First Things First': that of 'Last Things Too'. This states that, all other things being equal, you will recall more easily the 'last' things. Check your own memory banks and see if this principle holds for the following. You will probably recall: ? -The last new person you met ? -The last time you saw the person you love the most ? -The last social event you attended

I know you value the rules, but sometimes . . . sometimes breaking them is the right thing to do. I

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.

She believes that going too far is wrong. Yet she's not trying to prove her point; she's just living it out.

The basic principle of S/M was that all sexual activity between one or more adults had to be consensual and required a verbal negotiation, followed by an agreement between the players. All my years of romantic sex, when we tried to read each other's minds, were basically nonconsensual sex.

Buddhism is centered on the principle of two truths, the absolute truth and the relative truth. The absolute is that the true nature of our minds and of the universe is enlightened, peaceful, and perfect. By the true nature of the mind, Nyingma Buddhism means the union of awareness and openness.

The most important principle that an executive must embrace is a desire to produce results. As obvious as this sounds, it is not universally practiced by the highest-ranking executives in many companies. Many CEOs put something ahead of results on their list of priorities, and it represents the most dangerous of all the temptations: the desire to protect the status of their careers.

To put it simply, you are never right to make wrong, or wrong to make right. To be right, make right.

All religions are good 'in principle' - but unfortunately this abstract Good has only rarely prevented their practitioners from behaving like bastards.

was questioning one of the cardinal precepts of Buddhism, the principle of neglect.

That's the way it always is, said the old man. It's called the principle of favorability. When you play cards the first time, you are almost sure to win. Beginner's luck. Why is that? Because there is a force that wants you to realize your destiny; it whets your appetite with a taste of success.

It's called the principle of favorability, beginner's luck. Because life wants to achieve your destiny.

It doesn't matter who's correct, what matters is who's right.

One of the most aggressive things a human being can do is to go against what he or she believes is nice or pretty.

Unfortunately, the problem of the free speech argument is that you have to defend people you can't stand.

By ethical argument and moral principle the greatest crimes are eventually shown to have been necessary, and, in fact, a signal benefit to mankind.

No. Not even in the face of Armageddon. Never compromise.