Quotes About Principle

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

Che senso ha rispettare chi non rispetta noi? Che senso ha difendere la loro cultura o presunta cultura quando essi disprezzano la nostra?

Never confuse truth and the latest public opinion poll.

I would rather suffer with truth than celebrate with lies.

But there are times when one man's sense of justice may tear apart the peaceful domestic lives of other people.

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.

Rationalism is false not because it seeks to express reality in rational mode, so far as this possible, but because it seeks to embrace the whole of reality in the realm of reason, as if the reason coincides with the very principle of things.

Beware of being obsessed with consistency to your own convictions instead of being devoted to God. The important consistency in a saint is not to a principle but to the divine life. It is easier to be an excessive fanatic than it is to be consistently faithful, because God causes an amazing humbling of our religious conceit when we are faithful to Him.

Never make a principle out of your experience;let God be as original with other people as He is with you.

His Spirit, and it works on this principle—God is my Father, He loves me, I shall never think of anything He will forget, why should I worry? There

A saint realizes that it is God who engineers his circumstances; consequently there are no complaints, only unrestrained surrender to Jesus. Never try to make your experience a principle for others, but allow God to be as creative and original with others as He is with you.

I am not given to either believing or disbelieving things 'on principle,' as I have found many idiots prone to be, and what is more, some of them not ashamed to boast of the insane fact.

When a man says that he approves something in principal, it means he hasnt the slightest intention of putting it in practice.

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

When you say that you agree with a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

he held deep contempt for Amanda White on principle

However, its ultimate motivation is fanatics' hostility to the principle of an open society in which formal equality is recognized for everyone.

However, its ultimate motivation is fanatics' hostility to the principle of an open society in which formal equality is recognized for everyone. It is our existence as such that is intolerable for them.

Some truths are truths, no matter who says them.

M]onarchy was, or ought to be, not so much absolute as mitigated by the principle of ius politicum , supporting a mixed polity partaking of elements both royal and political, which is to say, popular and representative.

Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessings - give us that precious jewel and you may take everything else!