Quotes About Principle

Steer your boat with justice: forge A tongue on truth's anvil.

You should not honor men more than truth.

Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

But the Lacedaemonians, who make it their first principle of action to serve their country's interest, know not any thing to be just or unjust by any measure but that.

You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.

The truth is not always the same as the majority decision.

This business of Chaos versus Law, for example, turned out to be more than religious dogma. It was a practical fact of existence, here.

A selfish person always alters his/her principal according to his /her benefit.

Jangan hanya ya-ya-ya. Tuan terpelajar, bukan yes-man. Kalau tidak sependapat, katakan. Belum tentu kebenaran ada pada pihakku ...

Barang siapa tidak tahu bersetia pada azas, dia terbuka terhadap segala kejahatan: dijahati atau menjahati. (Mama, 4)

seorang tanpa prinsip adalah sehina-hina orang, manusia setengik-tengiknya,

My child, what does it matter, if you are in the right? Always follow the truth without caring about the result. Very often you may have to suffer injustice or unpleasant consequences for holding to the truth; but you must not, under any circumstances, abandon it.

Your ethical muscle grows stronger every time you choose right over wrong.

For me chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialities which enveloped my life to come in black volutes torn by fiery flashes, like those which had hidden Mount Sinai. Like Moses, from that cloud I expected my law, the principle of order in me, around me, and in the world. I would watch the buds swell in spring, the mica glint in the granite, my own hands, and I would say to myself: I will understand this, too, I will understand everything.

I would like it to be known that I have decided not to marry Group Capt. Peter Townsend. Mindful of the church's teaching that Christian marriage is indissoluble, and conscious of my duty to the Commonwealth, I have resolved to put these considerations before any others.

The right thing is to keep the right thing the right thing.

There is no law higher than truth.

Life is a dogma and a fight for the dogma.

Go in confidence, study the rules, and above all things, study human nature for the proper study of mankind is man and you will find that while expanding the intellect and the muscles your enlarged experience will enable you to every day accumulate more and more principle which will increase itself by interest and otherwise until you arrive at a state of independence.

To make a distinction between simple and professional work in a new society would result in the revolution sanctioning and recognizing as a principle a brutal fact we submit to nowadays, but that we nevertheless find unjust.

Collectivists begin by proclaiming a revolutionary principle - the abolition of private property - and then they deny it, no sooner than proclaimed, by upholding an organization of production and consumption which originated in private property.

Practice justice in word and deed, and do not get in the habit of acting thoughtlessly about anything.

You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.