Quotes About Principles

Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.

PRE. For your dedication and loyalty to your principles and beliefs. For your love,warmth and friendship. For your family and friends. You are missed by so many and you will never be forgotten.

You choose your battles. I think it's important to choose what battles you stand up for. But there are some battles that you should never, ever stand down from.

When someone claims to be acting from the highest principles, for the good of others, there is no reason to assume that the person's motives are genuine. People motivated to make things better usually aren't concerned with changing other people—or, if they are, they take responsibility for making the same changes to themselves (and first).

truth, virtue, and courage are not necessarily enough, but they are our best bet.

It indicates clearly that people need ordering principles, and that chaos otherwise beckons.

Cultivating judgment about the difference between virtue and vice is the beginning of wisdom, something that can never be out of date.

Cuando la estructura de una institución se ha vuelto corrupta -sobre todo de acuerdo a sus propios principios- criticarla es un acto de amistad.

After breaking the world into large, undifferentiated pieces, describing the problem(s) that characterize each division, and identifying the appropriate villains, the ism theorist then generates a small number of explanatory principles or forces (which may indeed contribute in some part to the understanding or existence of those abstracted entities).

Incompetent and corrupt intellectuals thrive on such activity, such games. The first players of a given game of this sort are generally the brightest of the participants. They weave a story around their causal principle of choice, demonstrating how that hypothetically primary motivational force profoundly contributed to any given domain of human activity.

Those who break the rules ethically are those who have mastered them first and disciplined themselves to understand the necessity of those rules, and break them in keeping with the spirit rather than the letter of the law.

If they fine me, I won't pay it. If they put me in jail, I'll go on a hunger strike. I'm not doing this. That's that. I am not using the words other people require me to use especially if they are made up by radical left-wing ideologues.

Cultivating judgment about the difference between virtue and vice is the beginning of wisdom, something that can never be out of date. By contrast, our modern relativism

Part of moving Beyond Order is knowing when you have such a reason. Part of moving Beyond Order is understanding that your conscience has a primary claim on your action, which supersedes your conventional social duty.

Rules should not be multiplied beyond necessity. (…) Limit the rules. Then, figure out what to do when one of them gets broken.

Maybe following the dictates of conscience is in fact the best possible plan that you have—at minimum, otherwise you have to live with your sense of self-betrayal and the knowledge that you put up with what you truly could not tolerate. Nothing about that is good.

This is life. We build structures to live in. We build families, and states, and countries. We abstract the principles upon which those structures are founded and formulate systems of belief.

Jordan B. Peterson

Here's a straightforward initial idea: rules should not be multiplied beyond necessity.

Starker [Leopold] had an adage for people in public service: 'If you're ashamed of it, don't do it. If you're not, publicize it.' " -David Graber, wildlife biologist at Yosemite National Park

Shakespeare: "El hereje no es el que arde en la hoguera, sino el que la enciende". La tolerancia de los ideales ajenos es virtud

El hereje no es el que arde en la hoguera, sino el que la enciende". La tolerancia de los ideales ajenos es virtud suprema en los que piensan.

La independencia moral es el sostén de la dignidad. Si el hombre aplica su vida al servicio de sus propios ideales, no se rebaja nunca. Puede comprometer su rango y perderlo, exponerse a la detracción y al odio, arrostrar las pasiones de los ciegos y la oblicuidad de los serviles; pero salva siempre su dignidad. Nunca se avergüenza de sí mismo, meditando a solas.

Isa rin akong Espanyol, pero bago ang pagiging Espanyol ay tao ako at bago ang Espanya ay sa ibabaw ng Espanya ay ang kanyang dangal, ang matataas na prinsipyo ng moralidad, ang mga walang-hanggang prinsipyo ng hindi nagbabagong katarungan!