Quotes About Principles

What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.

Let's not talk so much about vice. I'm against vice in all forms.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. ... The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission. (Announcing blockade of Cuba)

the archbishop endeavored to prevail on Mr. Wishart to recant; but he was too firmly fixed in his religious principles and too much enlightened with the truth of the Gospel, to be in the least moved.

We continue to emphasize that our position is that the Ten Commandments were done away only when considered as a covenant document. We are not saying that the principles expressed in the demands of the individual commandments have ceased. Our Lord Jesus Christ retains the principles that underlie commandments regardless of where those commandments are found in the Old Testament Scriptures.

When a Forsyte was engaged, married, or born, the Forsytes were present; when a Forsyte died — but no Forsyte had as yet died; they did not die; death being contrary to their principles, they took precautions against it, the instinctive precautions of highly vitalized persons who resent encroachments on their property.

I committed a sin the day I refused you - I discovered metal inside me where my heart should be - forgive me, Love, for acting on principles...

Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have.

In each succeeding war there is a tendency to proclaim as something new the principles under which it is conducted. Not only those who have never studied or experienced the realities of war, but also professional soldiers frequently fall into the error. But the principles of warfare as I learned them at West Point remain unchanged.

The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

Values spoken without actions taken are merely slogans.

You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure it's the right thing in the long run, and not just for the moment.

The economic metaphor came to be applied to every aspect of modern life, especially the areas where it simply didn't belong. In fields such as education, equality of opportunity, health, employee's rights, the social contract and culture, the first conversation to happen should be about values and principles; then you have the conversation about costs, and what you as a society can afford.

To be capable of embarrassment is the beginning of moral consciousness. Honor grows from qualms.

his principles could not be made to agree with that constitution and order which God had settled in the world

Whether there be any such moral principles, wherein all men do agree, I appeal to any who have been but moderately conversant in the history of mankind, and looked abroad beyond the smoke of their own chimneys.

Nature, I confess, has put into man a desire of happiness and an aversion to misery: these indeed are innate practical principles which (as practical principles ought) DO continue constantly to operate and influence all our actions without ceasing: these may be observed in all persons and all ages, steady and universal; but these are INCLINATIONS OF THE APPETITE to good, not impressions of truth on the understanding.

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

Lo mismo es cierto de la ética. Por ejemplo, la Biblia no menciona el aborto. Necesitamos aprender lo que es el aborto de fuentes extrabíblicas. Las Escrituras dicen algunas cosas acerca del asesinato y acerca de la vida humana antes de nacer. Cuando unimos los principios bíblicos con nuestro conocimiento extrabíblico de lo que es el aborto, llega a ser obvio que "no matarás" implica "no abortarás".

Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will.

We must never forget that it is a constitution we are expounding.

We see that music, like the world, is formed from unchanging mathematical principles deployed in time, creating complexity, variety and beauty.

When we practice sacred sexuality we are working with cosmologically rooted principles, balancing the heavenly yang (male energy) of the universe with the all-knowing, life-giving yin (feminine energy) of the earth within ourselves.

And although it hurts when people think less well of us than we deserve, our integrity, our self-respect, and our happiness do not ultimately depend upon the opinion of others. They depend upon our own conscience. We must be true to ourselves. And we must be true to others, whether they believe we are or not.