Quotes About Principle

Snark is what people on the inside call any attempt at protest from people on the outside. I hate it on principle, as do all Columbia professors, Catholic priests, and Mississippi Klansmen.

The Principle of Optimism All evils are caused by insufficient knowledge.

What I am concerned about is when tolerance is raised to a political principle and used as a substitute for discourses of justice, equality, or even freedom. What I am suggesting is that when it is raised to the level of a political principle of that sort, it usually cloaks the kinds of powers that are at issue.

If being forced to pretend to work is so infuriating because it makes clear the degree to which you are entirely under another person's power, then bullshit jobs are...entire jobs organized on that same principle. You're working, or pretending to work—not for any good reason, at least any good reason you can find—but just for the sake of working.

A legacy of true value is a legacy made of more than money. It's a legacy conceived in wisdom, nurtured by principle, and sustained by character.

Volcker and Thatcher both plucked from the shadows of relative obscurity a particular doctrine that went under the name of 'neoliberalism' and transformed it into the central guiding principle of economic thought and management.

Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.

Nature is always too strong for principle.

The rules of morality. therefore, are not conclusions of our reason. No one, I believe, will deny the justness of this inference; nor is there any other means of evading it, than by denying that principle, on which it is founded.

All you can do everyday, is do what you believe is right. That's what I do, and what will be, will be.

Self-sufficiency is the core principle of conservatism. At least my conservatism." "Survival of the fittest? And yet your people want creationism taught in the schools.

principe, or "in principle." The fromagerie or bank is open on Thursdays, en principe…

Compassion should be our animating principle when undertaking instruction with children and adults, since they are made in God's image.

A true faith in Jesus Christ will not suffer us to be idle. No, it is an active, lively, restless principle; it fills the heart, so that it cannot be easy till it is doing something for Jesus Christ.

Separation to God, separation from the world, is the first principle of Christian living.

The fundamental principle of Christianity is to be what God is, and he is light.

It is a universal principle that whenever one refuses to use his God-given powers, these powers decay and perish.

I say again that I am an atheist. I do not believe in God.

The declaration which says that God visits the sins of the fathers upon the children is contrary to every principle of moral justice.

I've never stopped trying to do what's right. I'm not doing it to earn favor with God. I'm doing it because it's the right thing to do.

Sir John Templeton: "My ethical principle in the first place was: 'Where could I use my talents that God gave me to help the most people?'"

For right is right, since God is God.

The world has no reason for fighting in our defense, and as a matter of principle God does not make cowardly nations free.

The Absolute God of the universe, the creator, preserver, and destroyer of the universe, is impersonal principle.