Quotes About Principle

Competing absolutisms respect each other more than either respects those who are allergic to absolutes as an absolute principle.

The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition, when suffered to exert itself with freedom and security, is so powerful a principle, that it is alone, and without any assistance, not only capable of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity, but of surmounting a hundred impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often encumbers its operations

in the great chess-board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own, altogether different from that which the legislature might chuse to impress upon it. If those two principles coincide and act in the same direction, the game of human society will go on easily and harmoniously, and is very likely to be happy and successful. If they are opposite or different, the game will go on miserably, and the society must be at all times in the highest degree of disorder.

Remember again the principle: We will never be over those things that God has set under us until we learn to be under those things that God has placed over us. There is strength through surrender. Are

ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right. [...] I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.

For many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.

I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.

Ott a legjobb a szÅ'lÅ', ahol honos. Ott érti meg az ember legjobban a demokrácia lényegét, ahol honos.

The people of Minnesota value a politician who believes what he says and says what he believes and votes that way.

To speak of home in relation to a building is simply to recognize its harmony with our own prized internal song

Integrity is a high rock above which the stormy ocean of worldly troubles cannot rise.

There is no such thing as a necessary evil.

Virtue loses its majesty when it morphs to dogma.

Without ever hearing it spoken out loud, we budding scientists simply embraced a principle I call the Central Doctrine of Science: All properties and events in the physical universe are governed by laws, and those laws hold true at every time and place in the universe. Graduate

Ram became revered because he functioned on the basis of the principle that life was not just about pleasure and hoarding things: it was about finding meaning and purpose.

It is easy to decide between right and wrong but it is difficult to decide between what is right and what is more right

As Auguste Comte observed, "All revolutionary ideas are only social applications of the principle of private interpretation.

So many decisions are destroyed by people's discussion on problems about the implementation. He worked always on the basis of let's get the principle agreed first and then farm out the implementation to somebody else.

Our country, the noblest country in the history of men, was based on the principle of individualism, the principle of man's "inalienable rights." It was a country where a man was free to seek his own happiness, to gain and produce; not to give up and renounce; to prosper, not to starve; to achieve, not to plunder; to hold as his highest possession a sense of his personal value, and as his highest virtue his self-respect.

In short, it is much easier to see a thing through from the point of view of abstract principle than from that of concrete responsibility.

Grace interpreted as a principle, pecca fortiter as a principle, grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom. Grace as a living word, pecca fortiter as our comfort in tribulation and as a summons to discipleship, costly grace is the only pure grace, which really forgives sins and gives freedom to the sinner.

Cheap grace means grace as a doctrine, a principle, a system. It means forgiveness of sins proclaimed as a general truth, the love of God taught as the Christian "conception" of God.

Ratio became a working hypothesis, a heuristic principle, and thus led to the incomparable rise of technology. This was something fundamentally new in world history. From the Egyptian pyramids to the Greek temples, from the medieval cathedrals up to the eighteenth century, technology was a matter of handicraft. It served religion, royalty, culture, and people's daily needs.

Cheap grace means grace as a doctrine, a principle, a system. It means forgiveness of sins proclaimed as a general truth, the love of God taught as the Christian 'conception' of God.