Quotes About Principle

If I didn't care about doing right and didn't feel uncomfortable doing wrong, I should get on capitally.

I mean that it is more natural for me to be wicked than virtuous, when I do a bad act, and I've done many, I never feel wither shame, remorse or fear, I sometimes wish it was not necessary as I don't like the trouble, but as for any moral sense of principle, I haven't a particle. Many people are like me as actions prove, but they are not so frank in owning it and insist on keeping up the humbug of virtue.

If I can do no more, let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.

As a good rule of thumb, if you have to lie, you might be doing something wrong.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all other courts.

The Chief believed if you sift through evil, at the very bottom you'll find good. He believed that evil has its limits. Beauvoir didn't. He believed that if you sift through good, you'll find evil. Without borders, without brakes, without limit.

Came a time when people of conscience had to take a stand.

Situational ethics?

Victrix causa deis placuit sed victa Catoni

Bring forward what is true. Write it so that it is clear. Defend it to your last breath.

God … has no more significance for religion than a fundamental general principle has for … science[.]

Socialism is the expression of the principle of violence crying from the workers' soul, just as Imperialism is the principle of violence speaking from the soul of the official and the soldier.

Liberalism has no admiration to spare for the heroic grandiosity of Marxism's professional revolutionaries, who stake the lives of thousands and destroy values which the labour of decades and centuries has created. Here the economic principle holds good: Liberalism wants success at the smallest price.

In science, compromise is a betrayal of truth.

Once the principle is admitted that it is the duty of the government to protect the individual against his own foolishness, no serious objections can be advanced against further encroachments.

The market system is the basis of our civilization. Its only alternative is the Führer principle.

Jesus wasn't seeking His own honor, but rather modeling the Honor Principle to the ones He was sent to.

Addiction is the central organizing principle of the family system—maintaining the system as well as the shame. When we address addiction in families, we open the door to the families' shame.

What the mediocrity principle tells us is that our state is not the product of intent, that the universe lacks both malice and benevolence, but that everything does follow rules—and that grasping those rules should be the goal of science.

when you think about the history of liberty. It's the story of how principle has gradually been elevated above the whim of tyrants. When the law was defined as more powerful than the king, that was one great breakthrough.

I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.

Better, though difficult, the right way to go. Than wrong, though easy, where the end is woe.

Great leaders have good people skills, and they can get people to compromise and work together. But they also take a stand when needed. Courage deals with principle, not perception. If you don't have the ability to see when to stand up and the conviction to do it, you'll never be an effective leader. Your dedication to potential mus remain stronger than your desire to appease others.

You must do right before you feel good.