Quotes About Principles

My jiu-jitsu is very simple and basic.

Libertarian principles are very simple, but you can't violate any of them and still call yourself Libertarian.

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.

I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.

Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.

When roles shift, ideologies have to shift, and ideologies hate to shift. The workaround is pragmatism—"a practical way of thinking concerned with results rather than with theories and principles." The shift is deeper than moving from one ideology to another; the shift is to discard ideology entirely.

righteousness - the moral justification to act with cruelty.

Applying these ten Tai Ji Quan Principles of Movement can be seen, in analogy, as if a person were floating in mid air—from

There is a collective blame shared by those of us who have created the modern Republican Party that has so egregiously failed the principles it claimed to represent.

The Republican Congress now represents a party with very few significant defining principles other than the promotion of the president's impulses at that moment. —Republican former senator Judd Gregg of New Hampshire

Courage is not standing up to a ludicrous man-child like Donald Trump.

How do you abandon deeply held beliefs about character, personal responsibility, foreign policy, and the national debt in a matter of months? You don't. The obvious answer is those beliefs weren't deeply held. In the end, the Republican Party rallied behind Donald Trump because if that was the deal needed to regain power, what was the problem? Because it had always been about power. The rest? The principles? The values? It was

These are: (1) the Moral Law; (2) Heaven; (3) Earth; (4) the Commander; (5) method and discipline.

Humanity and justice are the principles on which to govern a state, but not an army; opportunism and flexibility, on the other hand, are military rather than civic virtues.

The strong and the weak can serve, thanks to the principles of the ground.

The Moral Law, Heaven, Earth, The Commander, Method, and Discipline. These Five Heads should be familiar to every general. He who knows them, will be victorious. He who knows them not, will fail.

threw light upon the principles of war. It is obvious enough that Ssu-ma Ch`ien at least had no doubt about the reality of Sun Wu as

one should stick to one's principles and never compromise them just to do the done thing!

Human attempts to construct moral order are always precarious: If righteousness too often leads to self-righteousness, the demand for justice can lead to one guillotine or another.

Only thing that counts are ideas. Behind ideas are [moral] principles. Either one is serious or one is not. Must be prepared to make sacrifices. I'm not a liberal.

We die when we refuse to stand up for justice.

Principles triumph, they do not compromise.

I didn't approve of murder on general principles. Not even of people who seemed to go around begging for it.