Quotes About Principle

The better country club operated on the principle that Raleigh mattered, that its old families were fine ones, and that they needed a place where they could enjoy one another's company without being pawed at. Had we not found this laughable, our country club might have felt desperate.

Turns out, utilitarianism's way too simplistic

Calvin was not of stone, and if there are Reformed people who are, they are poor Calvinists.

It's like that quote: 'If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.' The choice between a duty or a principle, you know?

I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.

For me, politics is giving your word, standing by it, and abiding by it no matter what.

I only have one allegiance, and it's to the truth.

Whatever Brett Favre does, it's a sign of the apocalypse.

If there is something that I respect about the Arabs, it's the fact that they never change their position.

I tend not to argue about things that I don't believe in.

If either of you gentlemen should forget himself, I will have his blood, or he will have mine.' "'Amen!' called Daddy Gobseck as he put his pistols back in their place; 'but a man must have blood in his veins though before he can risk it, my son, and you have nothing but mud in yours.

J'écris à la lueur de deux Vérités éternelles : la Religion, la Monarchie, deux nécessités que les événements contemporains proclament, et vers lesquelles tout écrivain de bon sens doit essayer de ramener notre pays. Sans être l'ennemi de l'Election, principe excellent

A good and faithful judge prefers what is right to what is expedient.

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue which consists in not doing what is scandalously depraved and wicked. But there is no heart of holy principle in it, any more than there is in the grosser sin.

In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.

Superorganism, ideas, and the pecking order—these are the primary forces behind much of human creativity and earthly good. They are the holy trinity of the Lucifer Principle.

The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.

True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of man. It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle.

The principle on the Belief Window has to change first or the behavior will never change.

All things in the world of Nature are not controlled by Fate for the soul has a principle of its own.

the very phenomenon being investigated may be changed by the inquiry itself. It is as if there were a principle of human indeterminacy at work.

When you get a principle on which everyone is agreed, you get the beginning of complacency and deterioration.

Cuando tienes un principio con el que están todos de acuerdo, obtienes lo que es el comienzo de la complacencia y el deterioro.

A sense of shame is not a bad moral compass.