Quotes About Principle

The execution of any successful network project plan involves bringing all the pieces together, applying solid organizational principle to your network, and documenting what you add to your network.

Names have power. This is the fundamental principle of magic everywhere. Call out the name of a supernatural being, and you will have its instant and undivided attention in the same way that your lost toddler will have yours the second it calls your name.

Every man is a reformer until reform tramps on his toes.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to the good.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice.

The distinguishing part of our Constitution is its liberty. To preserve that liberty inviolate seems the particular duty and proper trust of a member of the House of Commons. But the liberty, the only liberty, I mean is a liberty connected with order: that not only exists along with order and virtue, but which cannot exist at all without them. It inheres in good and steady government, as in its substance and vital principle.

Kings will be tyrants by policy when subjects are rebels from principle.

I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to.

When one bases his life on principle, 99 percent of his decisions are already made.

To none will we sell, to none deny or delay, right or justice.

Always tell the truth. If you can't always tell the truth, don't lie.

And this is law, I will maintain,Unto my dying day, sir,That whatsoever king shall reign,I'll still be the Vicar of Bray, sir!

How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!

But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart.

One cannot think crooked and walk straight.

I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.

Cicero's central concern is the contradiction between virtue and the inevitable expediencies that divert human agents from the path of right conduct.

Philippic (the seventh) in which he defended his record as a peacemaker but said that any compromise with Antony would be dishonorable. "I do not reject peace," he said, "but I am afraid of war disguised as peace.

Let them hate me, provided they respect my conduct.

A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography, as Faulkner did, or you can dwell on a particular period. It provides the same framework.

The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment.

Nature governs man by no principle more fixed than that which leads him to pursue his interest.

We all have to find a cause we believe in and pursue it. Sometimes it may cost you your job, your personal life, your love life, etc.