Quotes About Principle

I'm a registered Republican and consider socialism a violation of the American principle that you shouldn't stick your nose in other people's business except to make a buck.

You won't catch me driving a race car that I have built.

It is never right to do wrong in order to get a chance to do right.

This would be entirely consistent with a reformation that was less about the assertion of faith and principle than about the redistribution of power and wealth.

The focus on contribution counteracts one of the basic problems of the executive: the confusion and chaos of events and their failure to indicate by themselves which is meaningful and which is merely "noise." The focus on contribution imposes an organizing principle. It imposes relevance on events.

Right Response to Reality—the Three R's—is the fundamental principle of morality, of sanctity, and of sanity.

Angels just see it all at once; they see all the individual applications of the general principle in the general principle

another principle demons use in spiritual warfare: multiple attacks, from many directions at once, or with many different weapons at once.

the nature of a voluntary act, whose principle needs to be in itself;

Aristotle had discovered only half the principle of inertia—that a body at rest remains at rest unless moved by another—but not the other half—that a body in motion remains in motion unless acted on by another.

But if scandal arise from truth, the scandal should be borne rather than the truth be set aside

Racists violate the principle of equality by giving greater weight to the interests of members of their own race when there is a clash between their interests and the interests of those of another race. Sexists violate the principle of equality by favoring the interests of their own sex. Similarly, speciesists allow the interests of their own species to override the greater interests of members of other species. The pattern is identical in each case. Most

Racists violate the principle of equality by giving greater weight to the interests of members of their own race when there is a clash between their interests and the interests of those of another race. Sexists violate the principle of equality by favoring the interests of their own sex. Similarly, speciesists allow the interests of their own species to override the greater interests of members of other species. The pattern is identical in each case.

If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the nature of the being, the principle of equality requires that its suffering be counted equally with the like suffering—insofar as rough comparisons can be made—of any other being.

The extension of the basic principle of equality from one group to another does not imply that we must treat both groups in exactly the same way, or grant exactly the same rights to both groups.

Probably the best-known tenet of modern moral philosophy: the doctrine that there is an unbridgeable gulf between facts and values, between descriptions of what is and prescriptions of what ought to be.

The fear of decadence is the fear – and fascination – of the other. It is a fantasy fear of letting go, of the abandonment of principle. In that it is an essentially middle-class fear, for the upper classes with their privilege – literally, private law – were answerable to no one, while the working class were both expendable and by tradition prone to vice

This is a deep and uncomfortable paradox, which will not have escaped you: we can only defend democracy by being undemocratic.

if I have to die to do what's proper, then I will, and be happy while I do.

L'umano desiderio di un principio, una parte di mezzo e una fine - e una fine adeguata, come grandezza, a quel principio e a quella parte di mezzo - si realizzava così completamente soltanto nella materia insegnata da Coleman all'Athena College. Ma al di fuori della tragedia classica del quinto secolo a.C. aspettarsi un compimento, per non dire una giusta e perfetta conclusione, significa, per un adulto, cullarsi in una stolta illusione.

Each of us here believes in the concept of honor: that it is man's duty to do that which is right and just, that might alone is not enough.

I do not believe that the way to fight great evil is to commit a lesser one.

It was the most amazing feeling in the world. to know that something right happened, and to know that it had happened not through luck or command but simply because it was right.

And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic nor popular - but one must take it because it is right.