Quotes About Principle

The Right of all members of society to form their own beliefs and communicate them freely to others must be regarded as an essential principle of a democratically organized society.

Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.

There are many true ladies, and they differ somewhat from society generally. So does a true gentleman, on the same principle of refinement and nobility of character.

We need love - an awesome love grounded in the evolutionary potential for life on Earth - to become the organizing principle for human society.

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

Whomsoever I love and hate, my principle is the same. That is, the educated, the rich and the administrators should not suck the blood of the poor.

Have a spiritual basis which guides you in life. Have a philosophy of life to live by.

Conscience is the spiritual, supernatural principle in man, and it is not of social origin at all. It is rather the perversion and confusion of conscience that is of social origin.

Sowing and reaping is a spiritual law...Sow generously and you will reap generously.

Physical beauty is the sign of an interior beauty, a spiritual and moral beauty which is the basis, the principle, and the unity of the beautiful.

I don't think of spiritual principle as a struggle. I think of life lived without spiritual principles as a struggle.

Equal justice under law is a spiritual as well as a civic principle.

No education deserves the name unless it develops thought, unless it pierces down to the mysterious spiritual principle of mind, and starts that into activity and growth.

I don't have a spiritual bone in my body; but what I am, is religious.

For one thing, Judo in reality is not a mere sport or game. I regard it as a principle of life, art and science. In fact, it is a means for personal cultural attainment.

If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.

I played it right because that's what you're supposed to do – play it right and with respect.

However, we have never met a sincere solipsist and we doubt that any exist.52 This illustrates an important principle that we shall use several times in this chapter: the mere fact that an idea is irrefutable does not imply that there is any reason to believe it is true.

Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it.

Always do what's right; this will gratify some and astonish the rest

Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.

Don't do anything that goes against your conscience, even if your country says so.

Although I have been prevented by outward circumstances from observing a strictly vegetarian diet, I have long been an adherent to the cause in principle. Besides agreeing with the aims of vegetarianism for aesthetic and moral reasons, it is my view that a vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.

I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple.