Quotes About Principle

Better to be a beggar in freedom than to be forced into compromises against my conscience. —

But the adept who starts his work in the Kether of Atziluth, that is to say in spiritual principle, and works that principle downwards to its expression on the planes of form, employing power drawn from the Unmanifest for this purpose, has made his operation a part of the cosmic process, and Nature is with him instead of against him.

Ni?emu život ne sme da bude cena. Apsolutno ni?emu.

In un epoca di relativismo morale, dare la tua parola non significa tanto, immagino. Ma mio padre mi aveva insegnato che è l'unica cosa che hai che nessuno potrà mai portarti via. L'unica cosa che puoi dare e allo stesso tempo mantenere.

Primum non nocere. First do no harm.

In this century theres been much stress placed not upon what we know but on knowing that our methods are themselves questionableour Song of Songs is the Uncertainty Principle.

I would never, never do anything unless I believed in it.

Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.

An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life. [Lat., Honesta mors turpi vita potior.]

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching.

Love is the only principle which makes life tolerable.

Through life let your principal object be the discharge of duty.

I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into calculation, and that learning and talents are only the second.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

Reason is the life of the law.

It's really hard to take that step-not only do I believe in something, I believe in it enough that I'm willing to set my own life on fire and burn it to the ground.

Of two evils, choose neither.

You have to stand up for what's right in life. Unless you do that... you're nothing.

The more you build your life on principle and less on personality - yours or others - the straighter will be your course.

I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.

It's easier to do the right thing from the start so there's nothing to apologize for

It's easier just to do the right thing from the start so there's nothing to apologize for.

Can you get this coffee on expenses?" "I can," said Flora, looking down at the Harbor's Rest's offering in disgust. "I don't think I will, though. Out of respect to the concept of coffee.