Quotes About Principle

The great principle which lay at the foundation of this fixed standard, the Constitution of the United States, was the equality of rights between the States. This was essential; it was necessary; it was a step which had to be taken first, before any progress could be made.

The most fundamental principle of learning theory is that behavior is a function of its consequences. When

Just believing, just having a molecule of faith--that simple step, when focused on the Lord Jesus Christ, has ever been and always will be not only the first principle of His Eternal Gospel but also the first step out of despair.

Sometimes you have to do wrong to do right.

sooner or later you have to decide what you believe." It was a thing I'd always known but until recently had forgotten: that faith is a decision. In its most basic form, it is a choice.

If you're going to spend your life standing on principle, you want to be sure everyone understands what the principle is.

If something's just, I'll let myself be hacked to bits for it.

Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means.

What, then, is patriotism? Patriotism, sir, is the last resort of scoundrels, said Dr. Johnson. Leo Tolstoy, the greatest anti-patriot of our times, defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers; a trade that requires better equipment for the exercise of man-killing than the making of such necessities of life as shoes, clothing, and houses; a trade that guarantees better returns and greater glory than that of the average working man.

Never take the easy way out if it means being dishonest or untruthful

There was nothing on the TV. Except pay-per-view and I refuse to buy programmes, on principle. Except that chef guy with the foul mouth.

Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not. It is only after you have faced up to this fundamental rule and learned to distinguish between what you can and can't control that inner tranquility and outer effectiveness become possible.

Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not.

Whatever your mission, stick by it as if it were a law and you would be committing sacrilege to betray it. Pay no attention to whatever people might say; this no longer should influence you.

Technology undoubtedly has, and will always have, some role in making life easier or better, so one shouldn't exclude it. But the role is supplemental. Technology serves us, not we technology. The principle of minimation can be roughly stated thus: it is better to find a non-technological solution than a technological one, or failing that, a less technological solution than a more technological one.

Only once before, in the landmark case of Marbury v. Madison, which established the principle of judicial review, had the Court invalidated an act of Congress on constitutional grounds. John McLean of Ohio and Benjamin R. Curtis of Massachusetts dissented; Curtis was so outraged by the decision that he resigned from the bench. Much

The polarity between the male and female principles exists also within each man and each woman. Just as physiologically man and woman each have hormones of the opposite sex, they are bisexual also in the psychological sense. They carry in themselves the principle of receiving and of penetrating, of matter and of spirit. Man—and woman—finds union within himself only in the union of his female and his male polarity. This polarity is the basis for all creativity.

L'opinion du monde ne compte pas, mon fils. Seul compte que tu saches, au tréfonds de ton cÅ"ur, que tu n'as pas souillé ton honneur. L'honneur est une chose sacrée et doit être traité comme tel. Un homme peut survivre au scandale, à la ruine, ou à pire encore, s'il sait que son honneur est sauf.

On ne s'est pas contenté de dénoncer les excès de l'égalitarisme, c'est le principe même d'égalité qu'on a remis en cause, et dévalorisé.

I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty politics. I did not know back then and I don't know now either.

sino en sacrificar (hacer sagrado) todo lo que hacemos y todo lo que somos, en santificar cada acto natural por una reducción de todas las actividades a su principio. Decimos «natural» de forma intencionada para dar a entender que todo lo que es hecho naturalmente puede ser sagrado o profano según nuestro grado de conocimiento, pero que todo lo que no es hecho naturalmente es esencial e irrevocablemente profano.

Is it not amazing," wrote Henry, "that at a time when the rights of humanity are defined and understood with precision, in a country above all others fond of liberty … we find men professing religion the most humane, mild, gentle, and generous, adopting a principle as repugnant to humanity as it is inconsistent with the Bible and destructive to liberty?" Henry

A fundamental principle that I learned in my career, and a principle that my consulting company McChrystal Group helps American civilian companies to adopt, is that winning units and organizations ensure that the time they actually spend - daily, weekly, and yearly - must hew closely to their priorities.

I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit.