Quotes About Principles

Folk want bread," he said. "Then safety. Then shelter. Freedom's far down the list, and principles far behind that.

There's always good men on both sides of a good fight.

In war, you seize all the high ground you can.' He lifted the egg to his lips, looking small between his big finger and thumb. 'Except the moral kind.' And he sucked the insides out through the hole. 'That ain't worth shit.

Honour, eh? What the hell is that anyway? Every man thinks it's something different. You can't drink it. You can't fuck it. The more of it you have the less good it does you, and if you've got none at all you don't miss it.

Honour, eh? What the hell is that anyway? Every man thinks it's something different. You can't drink it. You can't fuck it. The more of it you have the less good it does you, and if you've got none at all you don't miss it.' He shook his head. 'But some men think it's the best thing in the world.

Codes of honour, I fear, aren't worth the paper they're not written on.

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." "It's

Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles of freedom of speech and separation of powers that form the foundation of the United States Government.

Lo que estaba aprendiendo es uno de los principios fundamentales de la física cuántica: mente y materia no son dos elementos distintos, y nuestros pensamientos y sentimientos tanto conscientes como inconscientes son los planos que determinan nuestro destino.

I don't get it," Raul said. "Why all this macho?" "When I say act like a man," Leonard said, "I mean act honorably and with courage. Macho has been turned into a bad word by turds who act like beasts, not men.

Killing ain't no good thing, son, unless it's to eat or protect yourself. And you ought never to delight in it.

I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.

We are establishing an understanding that the spiritual principles which we learn—the principles of spirit—are our protection, our health, our safety, our security, and our peace. And these principles will bring freedom to every individual on the face of the globe as the world awakens to them.

There are always those prepared to sacrifice civilised principles for personal gain,

He who has no means of subsistence, has no duty to acknowledge or respect other people's property, considering that the principles of the social convenant have been violated to his prejudice.

If I've learned one thing in life, it's: Stand for something or you'll fall for anything.

Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.

I have principles in my professional and personal life as to how things are done.

One way or another, a life without conscience is a failed life.

I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.

If you don't have solid beliefs, you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon.

Freemasonry is an establishment founded on the benevolent intention of extending and conferring mutual happiness upon the best and truest principles of moral life and social virtue.

Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness.

Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.