Quotes About Principles

I won't trade humanity for patriotism.

Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards; those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and those bastards always talk about the purity of race.

In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars.

To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, "Our Country, right or wrong, " and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that that phrase is an insult to the nation?

Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.

We would fight not for the political future of a distant city [Danzig], rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth.

I value peace, too, when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.

Fighting for your convictions is important. But finding peace is paramount.

Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.

Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty.

China has been committed to the independent foreign policy of peace and has developed friendship and cooperation with all countries on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence.

Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace or after ages of conflict and war, but come it will, and abide it will, so long as the principles by which it was acquired are held sacred.

I studied what principles under-laid peace and prosperity and concluded the only way to achieve societal well-being was through a system of economic freedom.

Peace is not merely a vacuum left by the ending of wars. It is the creation of two eternal principles, justice and freedom.

One of the most ordinary weaknesses of the human intellect is to seek to reconcile contrary principles, and to purchase peace at the expense of logic.

The peace of the man who has foresworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace but a canting impotence.

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

Philosophy is the sum total of all that you know and what you decide is valuable.

The basically simple things are best, whether it's automobiles or diets or philosophy.

Freemasonry embraces the highest moral laws and will bear the test of any system of ethics or philosophy ever promulgated for the uplift of man.

Only that which is directed toward definite goals, which in turn are founded on sound educational philosophy, can be ultimately meaningful. The principles must always precede the activities.

The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.

I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.

Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.