Quotes About Principles

If I lived by some code, my actions would become predictable. The enemy would take advantage of this and I'd be killed. An honorable death doesn't exist. Death is death. But it's funny that survival and revenge require the same thing: no honor codes, no supposed higher principles to aspire to, no mercy

When I am Weaker Thn You, I ask you for Freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am Stronger than you, I take away your Freedom Because that is according to my principles.

Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.

When I need to identify rebels, I look for men with principles

There has never been a truly selfless rebel, just hypocrites—conscious hypocrites or unconscious hypocrites, it's all the same.

When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.

Moral decisions are always easy to recognize," Odrade said. "They are where you abandon self-interest.

it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error. Even

You took the universe as you found it and applied your principles where you could.

Principles," he said, "are what you fight for. Most men go through a lifetime unchallenged, except at the final moment. They have so few unfriendly arenas in which to test themselves.

When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles. —WORDS OF AN ANCIENT PHILOSOPHER

Law must retain useful ways to break with traditional forms because nothing is more certain than that the forms of Law remain when all justice is gone. — Gowachin aphorism

Teg boiled it down to an essence: If only one person followed such guiding principles, this was a better universe.

the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error. Even the hawks could appreciate these facts.

Y la lealtad es un valioso lujo. Se puede vender, pero no comprar. —

Când sunt mai slab ca voi, v? cer libertatea pentru c? asta corespunde principiilor voastre; când sunt mai puternic ca voi, v? iau libertatea pentru c? asta corespunde principiilor mele.

My father once told me that respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles. —WORDS OF AN ANCIENT PHILOSOPHER (ATTRIBUTED BY HARQ AL-ADA TO ONE LOUIS VEUILLOT)

When I'm stronger than you I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.

Perverts don't perpetuate!

Quando io sono più debole di te, ti chiedo la libertà perché ciò è in accordo con i tuoi princìpi. Quando sono più forte di te, io ti tolgo la libertà perché ciò è in accordo con i miei princìpi. Parole di un antico filosofo (attribuite da Harq al-Ada a un certo Louis Veuillot)

One of the faceless gods produced a thundering whisper in Dasein's skull: "This is my commandment given unto you: A poor man cannot afford principles and a rich man doesn't need them.

Values, my dear grandchild, depend for their acceptance upon their success.

Of course, as someone once observed, there is no right way to do something wrong