Quotes About Principle

But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms of animal life.

The whole thing of life and all the answers to everything are in one divine law, Karma action and reaction.

I believe people who practice their beliefs in daily life are activists.

I just do whatever it is that I believe I should do, regardless of the risks to my life.

It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.

Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

I have never made an inflammatory statement in my life

I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.

The life of doctrine is in application.

Whatever principle of intelligence we attain in this life, it will rise with us in the resurrection.

To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life.

I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation.

Speaking as a Democrat, all my life battling for what I conceived to be Democracy, and what I conceived to be right, I am yet an American above Democracy.

The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying.

Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.

I may not be a politician, but I will fight to the end of my life for what I believe in.

The soul, which is the first principle of life, is not a body, but the act of a body; just as heat, which is the principle of calefaction, is not a body, but an act of a body.

An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.

Honor bright! Fair play is a jewel!

He had not the knack of surrounding himself with nice people--indeed, for a man of ability and virtue his choice had been singularly unfortunate; he had no guiding principle beyond a certain preference for mediocrity;

Yes, for we fight for more than Love or Pleasure; there is Truth. Truth counts, Truth does count.

It seems to me that here and there in life we meet with a person or incident that is symbolical. It's nothing in itself, yet for the moment it stands for some eternal principle. We accept it, at whatever costs, and we have accepted life. But if we are frightened and reject it, the moment, so to speak, passes; the symbol is never offered again.

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.