Quotes About Principles

Even in Christendom the average churchgoer is fully satisfied if he learns by rote a few of the elementary principles of religion. By so doing he comforts himself that he is not an infidel, and since he believes there is a God (though it may be one which his own imagination has devised) he prides himself that he is far from being an atheist. Yet as to having any living, spiritual, influential and practical knowledge of the Lord and His ways he is a stranger, altogether unenlightened.

As for myself, I would just say that, because of what I am, I can at least look myself in the face when I stand before the mirror each morning to shave. And that, madam, is more than many men I know can do.

I have spent my whole life trying to preserve a certain idea of myself, and that is all. You have to cling to a set of values that do not depreciate with time. Everything else is the fashion of the moment, fleeting, mutable. In a word, nonsense.

el deber de pelear cuando hay que hacerlo, al margen de la nación y la bandera; que, al cabo, en cualquier nacido no suelen ser una y otra sino puro azar. Hablo de empuñar el acero, afirmar los pies y ajustar el precio de la propia piel a cuchilladas en vez de entregarla como oveja en matadero. Hablo de conocer, y aprovechar, que raras veces la vida ofrece ocasión de perderla con dignidad y con honra.

Los que tienen patriotismo, fe y valor siempre pierden al final mucho más que los que no los tienen.

Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.

The pathway to a nation's greatness is paved with truth

Politics must be the battle of the principles... the principle of liberty against the principle of force.

Our worldview dictates what we think and believe is true. We hold our beliefs at two levels. One is our operating beliefs. They are the beliefs that we act on. These beliefs affect and influence our values and overall behavior. Our theoretical beliefs are the beliefs that we hold at a theoretical level. They may or may not affect our lives. A church's doctrinal statement or creed would be one example of a theoretical belief.

Peace won by the compromise of principles is a short-lived achievement.

Ideals may tell us something important about what we would like to be. But compromises tell us who we are.

we need to stand up for our own principles as liberals. Specifically, we need to say to offended Western Muslims (and their liberal supporters) that it is not we who must accommodate their beliefs and sensitivities. Rather, it is they who must learn to live with our commitment to free speech.

At the same time, we need to stand up for our own principles as liberals. Specifically, we need to say to offended Western Muslims (and their liberal supporters) that it is not we who must accommodate their beliefs and sensitivities. Rather, it is they who must learn to live with our commitment to free speech.

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

He first advocates practicing moral conduct as a foundation for spiritual development.

An honest person can be sold or purchased but never honesty

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

There is no logical answer to the question ' Why be moral'. Religions provide practical answers to the question.

Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.

In the world at large we seldom vote for a principle or a given state of affairs. We vote for a man who pretends to believe in that principle or promises to achieve that state. We don't want a man, we want a condition of peace and plenty-- or, it may be, war and want-- but we must vote for a man.

We must face the fact that international relations are governed by interests and not by moral principles.

He may realize that the world is a jungle. But if he has seen that it could be better for anyone if the simple principles of decency and kindliness were generally applied, then he must in honesty try to practice these consistently and to live, personally, as if they were general. In other words, he must follow the light he has seen.

Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees; pursue some few principles, which they have chanced upon absurdly; care not to innovate, which draws unknown inconveniences; use extreme remedies at first; and, that which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge or retract them; like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn.

I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized.