Quotes About Principles

You may take my purse; but I cannot have my moral Self annihilated. The purse is any Highwayman's who might meet me with a loaded pistol: but the Self is mine and God my Maker's; it is not yours; and I will resist you to the death, and revolt against you ...

Hayat?mda hiçbir zaman, insan biçimindeki herhangi bir yarat??a dokunmak ya da yaklaÅŸmakla kendini kirlenmiÅŸ sayacak bir insan olmad?m ben.

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.

Kissing a new hero isn't acceptable to me, especially when it's not necessary.

Never say never, but I won't kiss just for the heck of it.

Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.

It's much nicer to be known as Mr. Nice Guy than Mr. Nasty Guy. But you've got to have lines - and when you hit the line, that's the end of the story, nice guy or not.

Most millennials have no problem standing their ground when asked to do something that conflicts with their personal values.

The foundation of all free government and all social order must be laid in families and in the discipline of youth. Young persons must not only be furnished with knowledge, but they must be accustomed to subordination and subjected to the authority and influence of good principles. It will avail little that youths are made to understand truth and correct principles, unless they are accustomed to submit to be governed by them.

If it's wrong when they do it, it's wrong when we do it.

I do not feel that we should set up people as "models"; rather actions, thoughts, principles.

Il existe deux ensembles de principes. Les principes de pouvoir et de privilège et les principes de vérité et de justice. Si vous courez après le pouvoir et les privilèges, ce sera toujours au détriment de la vérité et de la justice.

Si nos tomamos la molestia de distinguir realidad y doctrina en el sistema neoliberal, encontramos, en suma, que los principios políticos y económicos vigentes en la realidad son muy diferentes a los que se proclaman.

I would love to be a sellout if only someone would ask.

Two of the top rules—Try Not to Hurt Anybody, and Have the Balls to Say What You Think—often clashed, but the results blended with her Be An Asshole When Necessary rule, so it worked for her.

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; Change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

I'll tell you, he's a man of rules. You don't cheat, steal, or lie. You don't misuse animals or take advantage of those weaker than you. You don't spoil for a fight ... but you don't walk away from one. You stand for your friends and for your round in the pub. You never touch a woman who belongs to another, and you don't give your word unless you intend to keep it.

If the Moral Law doesn't exist, then there's no moral difference between the behavior of Mother Teresa and that of Hitler.

Taste is subjective, but some subjective opinions are casually expressed the same way we articulate principles of math or science

What you have to do is work on yourself. Make yourself attractive through the things you do, the principles you hold dear, and the goals you've set for yourself. Then you can try to get a woman. You can't expect her to love you just because you love her back. That only happens when the woman is weak.

What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.

Decide what you stand for. And then stand for it all the time.   When

understand and harness the principles of disruptive innovation.

What this implies at a deeper level is that many of what are now widely accepted principles of good management are, in fact, only situationally appropriate. There are times at which it is right not to listen to customers, right to invest in developing lower-performance products that promise lower margins, and right to aggressively pursue small, rather than substantial, markets.