Quotes About Principle

Sometimes, for principle, your gonna have to kick some ass.

Besides, is it really stealing if you're stealing from an asshole?" "I'd have to double-check, but I don't think the criminal code includes an asshole clause.

You don't do what's right because you know it will work out. You do it because you know it's right.

Prayer cannot truly be taught by principles and seminars and symposiums. It has to be born out of a whole environment of felt need. If I say, "I ought to pray," I will soon run out of motivation and quit; the flesh is too strong. I have to be driven to pray.

The thing to remember about dealing with our kids' fights is to butt out of them. Expect them to handle their squabbles themselves. This may be the toughest parenting principle to follow because kids desperately want our intervention. In fact, our intervention makes it safe for them to fight. They know we'll step in before anyone gets hurt

God honors you when you take a stand for what is right.

One investor's two rules of investing: Never lose money. Never forget rule #1. (Warren Buffett)

Integrity is doing the right thing, even if nobody is watching.

Integrity is doing the right thing, even if no one is watching.

I have to know the hill on which I'm willing to die," she told the group. "The equality of the sexes is that hill for me.

Men can have all manner of deeply held beliefs about the world in general that they find most inconvenient when called upon to apply to their own lives. Few people let morality get in the way of expediency. Or even convenience. A man who truly believes in a thing beyond the point where it costs him is a rare and dangerous thing.

She never saw more damage done than by folk acting on high principle.

I will defend the oppressed, and glory in the virtue, which teaches me, that it is the first duty of humanity to do so. Yes, my Lord, if it must be so, I am ready to sacrifice inferior duties to the grandeur of a principle, which ought to expand all hearts and impel all actions. I shall best support the honour of my house by adhering to its dictates.

There can be no degradation, my Lord, where there is no vice," replied Vivaldi; "and there are instances, pardon me, my Lord, there are some few instances in which it is virtuous to disobey.

But this, it seems to me, should be the grand leading principle of a mother in the education of her daughter, to give her such faith in herself, such knowledge of the laws of her own being, such trust in the guiding power of the universe, that she will have a principle of life and growth within her which will react upon all outward circumstances and turn them into means of education.

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Allegiance to a belief system can have deep, non-rational roots

Sometimes doing the right thing isn't the right thing to do."   "Here

When honor and the Law no longer stand on the same side of the line, how do we choose[?]

To see the Logos, the principle of consciousness, crucified on the cross of time and space in our own selves is not an evasion but among the most profound insights a human being can have.

such as the one encapsulated in the seventh principle: whenever possible, we should manage our thinking by generating cognitive loops.

Accordingly, the ninth principle: whenever possible, we should manage our thinking by embedding extensions in our everyday environments.

It's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.

The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.