Quotes About Principles

There is no better time than now, this very Christmas season, for all of us to rededicate ourselves to the principles taught by Jesus the Christ.

I figure it's okay to make certain rules, whether or not people despise you for it at the time.

There is no possible line of conduct which has at some time and place been condemned, and which has not at some other time and place been enjoined as a duty.

At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate every principle of international law and human rights with impunity.

Morals aren't just for when it's easy, Anita. They aren't morals if you throw them aside every time it's convenient.

Principles have no real force except when one is well fed.

The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it--when unpopular.

We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

He was an artist when he saw society: it never crossed his mind that society had to be like this, had any right, had any business being like this. A car in the street. Why? Why cars? This is what an artist has to be: harassed to the point of insanity or stupefaction by first principles.

ethics is not about platitudes, let alone tautologies, logic or mathematics, but about difficult choices - dilemmas.

There are already plenty of people who will take a firm stand on the need to be competely impartial between right and wrong.

Nothing could persuade him to accept the possibility of compromise with evil at the expense of others, or to abandon his faith in the rule of law, the supremacy of elected Parliaments and the rights of the individual.

No doubt it is not popular to say these things,' Churchill had written to his wife on 26 September 1935, 'but I am accustomed to abuse and I expect to have a great deal more of it before I have finished. Somebody has to state the truth.' During

If You've Got Nothing Worth Dying For, You've Got Nothing Worth Living For

There are some things so dear, some things so precious, some things so eternally true, that they are worth dying for. And I submit to you that if a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong

So I have tried to make it clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

it is just as wrong, or even perhaps more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek. I have tried to make clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law. Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust.

Be sure that the means you employ are as pure as the end you seek.

Justice at the deepest level had but few stalwart champions.

What you're saying may get you a foundation grant but it won't get you into the kingdom of truth.