Quotes About Principles

Ours is the age of substitutes instead of language, we have jargon instead of principles, slogans and instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.

Because the domain experts are feeding into it, it reflects deep knowledge of the business and those abstractions are true business principles.

an illustration of the fallacy of Platonic thinking applied to evolutionary principles.

I think that what I'm doing is right. And election-year politics, which intensifies everything, is not going to drive me off that course.

Garrison believed that the Constitution "was 'a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.

That's what I wanted to say. Ye mustn't think we're over hard on thee. We don't want to be. It's just – well – back of it all, a chap's got to be honest, Joe. And never thee forget that, all thy life, no matter what comes. Ye've got to be honest.

The acutely Christian character of the British abolitionist movement is undeniable, for its leaders were all consciously acting out of the principles of their deeply held faith.

His opposition to self-indulgent emotionalism and "phraseology" was the same as ever; his opposition to the National Socialists and all they represented was the same as ever.

Surely the principles as well as the practice of Christianity are simple and lead not to meditation only, but to action.

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor without faith. —Alexis de Tocqueville W

He had theologically redefined the Christian life as something active, not reactive. It had nothing to do with avoiding sin or with merely talking or teaching or believing theological notions or principles or rules or tenets. It had everything to do with living one's whole life in obedience to God's call through action.

The only foundation of a free Constitution is pure virtue.

Though a clergyman, he never thought of reading prayers during their whole stay at Nice. He appeared in all respects like an ordinary man of the world, mixing, like myself, in all companies, and joining, as readily as others, in the prevalent Sunday parties. Indeed, when I engaged him as a companion in my tour, I knew not that he had any deeper principles.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles. According

But forgive me if I cannot help expressing my fear that you are nevertheless deluding yourself into principles which have but too much tendency to counteract your own object, and to render your virtues and your talents useless both to yourself and mankind.

If a Christian may act in the several relations of life, must he seclude himself for all to become so? Surely the principles as well as the practice of Christianity are simple, and lead not to meditation only but to action.

human being's moral integrity begins when he is prepared to sacrifice his life for his convictions.

Who stands fast? Only the man whose final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, or his virtue, but who is ready to sacrifice all this when he is called to obedient and responsible action in faith and in exclusive allegiance to God—the responsible man, who tries to make his whole life an answer to the question and call of God. —DIETRICH BONHOEFFER

Who stands fast? Only the man whose final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, or his virtue, but who is ready to sacrifice all this when he is called to obedient and responsible action in faith and in exclusive allegiance to God—the responsible man, who tries to make his whole life an answer to the question and call of God.

You can speak of the ethical foundations of science, but you cannot speak of the scientific foundations of ethics.

They understood that freedom was not merely the freedom to be left alone; it was the freedom to do what was right.

The tremendous success of general management over the last century has provided unprecedented material abundance, but those management principles are ill suited to handle the chaos and uncertainty that startups must face.

Unknowingly, we had fallen into a classic startup trap. We had been so successful with our early efforts that we were ignoring the principles behind them.

By a declaration, liberty is born. With courage she is nourished, and with unceasing commitment she is guarded.