Quotes About Principle

I would rather die early than enter Malacanang.

I am not in the entertainment business; I am in the justice business.

I don't believe in social equality, and they know it.

Ethics knows no party. Those rules should be applied the same in a Republican administration and a Democratic administration.

I'm an Indian and I shall not do anything that goes against my ethos.

naturally pursuing a higher level of joy in old age is a principle of the human body and a principle of nature. That's why selfish people who are still obsessed with their desires even into old age seem ugly.

A real spy is an ethical believer in an incorporeal and ethical Deity.

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

If the truth shall kill them, let them die.

Mothers train your children to only Speak Truth

Bravery is standing with the truth and right

Courage was scarcely deemed worthy to be counted among virtues, unless it was exercised in the cause of righteousness.

Courage is doing what is right

Democracy raises up a natural prince for its leader, and aristocracy infuses a princely spirit among the people.

To create works of art meant no less to him than to paint life, not mere reality, but the principle of life.

You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the national anthem, though of course I would defend your right to remain seated should you so decide.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, least I should be accounted an extravagant freak and so prejudice my Readers against all those things which were the main designe of the book.

In teaching, the other main problem related to type is the students' interest. Intuitives and sensing types differ greatly in what they find interesting in any subject even if they like, that is, are interested in, the same subjects. Intuitives like the principle, the theory, the why. Sensing types like the practical application, the what and the how.

It was the principle of this Court that deterrent laws, however strict, are useless without positive moral discipline; that the happiness of citizens depends, not on having the walls of their porticoes covered with laws, but on having justice in their hearts.

The demon said, "The Way cannot be seen or heard. What can be seen or heard are just the traces of the Way. But you will be enlightened about what has no traces by the traces themselves. This is called 'receiving it on your own.' If Learning is not receiving it on your own, it will have no function. Though swordsmanship is just a trivial art, it uses the essence of mind and, extended to its most fundamental principle, merges with the Way.

A nihilist is a man who does not bow to any authorities, who does not take any principle on trust, no matter with what respect that principle is surrounded.

Life for Faraday was, by definition, beyond any kind of mere human meddling. That meant that anything that turned out as a matter of fact, amenable to experimental investigation, simply could not be the principle of life.

A secular person treats as the Highest Standard something that isn't the Highest Standard.