Quotes About Principles

The Master was entirely free of four faults: arbitrariness, inflexibility, rigidity, and selfishness.

To know what is first and what is last will lead near to what is taught in the Great Learning.

The gentleman understands what is moral. The small man understands what is profitable.

If one were to be a person of value that value could not be a condition subject to hazards of fortune. It had to be a quality that could not change. No matter what.

A man of broad principles. Of liberal sentiments. Even a generous man...Yet one might say that his way through the world was so broad it scarcely made a path at all

As for myself again if I cant be decorum's sworn enemy while savoring its fruits I simply see no place for me at all.

No hay criterio definitivo que pueda demostrar la bondad o maldad de un juicio ético. Que

These were the new protocols. Strictures that had not existed before. Now they did.

Where there is no vital community to hold up precious ethical and religious ideals, there can be no coming to a moral commitment—only personal accomplishment is applauded.

Every wonderful thing in our world has a fight in its history: our rights, our good fortune, our happiness. All that is sweet was paid for, once upon a time, by principled people who risked everything to change the world for the better.

Sometimes you have to stand up for what you believe in, even against those you love, and that can be harder than you think.

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

was in the grip of his moral, mental being.

thing, or who changes his speech or manner according to the appearance or position of the people he meets, is not a man working in the Way.

A person who is influenced by the quality of a thing, or who changes his speech or manner according to the appearance or position of the people he meets, is not a man working in the Way.

I judge people by their own principles – not by my own.

Merely a concrete test of the underlying principles of the great republic is the Negro Problem, and the spiritual striving of the freedmen's sons is the travail of souls whose burden is almost beyond the measure of their strength, but who bear it in the name of an historic race, in the name of this the land of their fathers' fathers, and in the name of human opportunity.

I refused to teach Sunday school. When Archdeacon Henry Phillips, my last rector, died, I flatly refused again to join any church or sign any church creed. From my 30th year on I have increasingly regarded the church as an institution which defended such evils as slavery, color caste, exploitation of labor and war.

The earth-self observing the Cosmos and trying to understand the Cosmos by scientific principles from which its self is excluded is, beyond doubt, the strangest phenomenon in all of the Cosmos, far stranger than the Ring Nebula in Lyra. It, the self, is in fact the only alien in the entire Cosmos.

I do not say these things for a dollar, or to fill up the time while I wait for a boat;

I know I am august, I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood, I see that the elementary laws never apologize

Now he was about to launch the Macintosh, a machine that violated many of the principles of the hacker's code: It was overpriced; it would have no slots, which meant that hobbyists could not plug in their own expansion cards or jack into the motherboard to add their own new functions; and it took special tools just to open the plastic case. It was a closed and controlled system, like something designed by Big Brother rather than by a hacker.

Woz's father taught him something else that became ingrained in his childlike, socially awkward personality: Never lie. "My dad believed in honesty. Extreme honesty. That's the biggest thing he taught me. I never lie, even to this day." (The only partial exception was in the service of a good practical joke.)

At its core were certain principles: authority should be questioned, hierarchies should be circumvented, nonconformity should be admired, and creativity should be nurtured.