Quotes About Principle

All the week a great thunderbolt hung over the house. All her life Demelza's principle, though she did not know it as such, had been never to let the sun go down on her wrath. But she could very well have been buried with this wrath, because it came from a wound that knew no cure.

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All her life Demelza's principle, though she did not know it as such, had been never to let the sun go down on her wrath.

All her life Demelza's principle, though she did not know it as such, had been never to let the sun go down on her wrath. But she could very well have been buried with this wrath, because it came from a wound that knew no cure.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

There is not one single social or economic principle or concept in the philosophy of the Russian Bolshevik which has not been realized, carried into action, and enshrined in immutable laws a million years ago by the White Ant.

A wall of crystal, utterly immovable, began to tower up in the Narrows, and against this wall of inhibition no weapon could be employed. The 'No' principle had become established in men's minds, and nothing could ever eradicate it.

always followed, so far as I could see, the principle that military commanders should not be judged by results, but by the quality of their effort.

There is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for making a certainty of what you try. But this principle, like others in life and war, has its exceptions.

did not overlook the broad principle that in war as in life everything is relative.

at a touch of external difficulties or menace all these fierce internal controversies would disappear for the time being, and we should be brought into line and into tune. But why is it that men are so constituted that they can only lay aside their own domestic quarrels under the impulse of what I will call a higher principle of hatred?…

We often hear military experts inculcate the doctrine of giving priority to the decisive theatre. There is a lot in this. But in war this principle, like all others, is governed by facts and circumstances;

Burke's dictum, "If I cannot have reform without injustice, I will not have reform.

the Greater Good and the Greater Profit are not compatible aims...

Il fatto di aver perso fiducia negli ufficiali della nave non è una ragione per affidarne la rotta a agente che crede ai naufragi come questione di principio o fa della pirateria un affare.

Rule #1 of Step #1," he replied. "No lobbying.

Do what is right and be prepared to pay the price.

The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.

It's not enough to do something. It's important to do the right thing.

Maybe Charlotte was right, and I was hopelessly addicted to breaking rules oprinciple.

Ahli hukum tidak bisa menyimpang dari azas hukum. Mereka harus taat pada hukum yang berlaku.

No man of honor avoided what needed to be done, simply because it might not proceed in his favor.

Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause.

Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.