Quotes About Principles

Whats right isn't always popular and whats popular isn't always right.

Ideal theory provides evaluative standards for judging when a social order is seriously unjust and an objective to strive for in our re sis tance to oppression. Injustices are conceptualized as deviations from the ideal princi ples of justice, in much the same way that fallacious reasoning is conceived as a deviation from the rules of logical inference. An injustice is a failure on the part of individuals, institutions, or social arrangements to satisfy what the princi ples of justice demand.

When you incorporate the principles from each lesson of Success Is Not an Accident into your daily life, you will begin to experience the same

And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.

Our ultimate weapon is not our guns but our beliefs.

Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.

SAIORSE From Saiorse, a name of Irish origin, Meaning 'freedom' Faces problems head on Admired for its originality, dedicated to worthy causes A kind and generous fridge It always stands firm for its principles It does not have to get its own way always Others think it is an extremely clever fridge From Matt Molloys Pub May 20th 1997

in a constitutionally ordered state, where laws are derived from broad principles of right and wrong and where those principles are enshrined and protected by agreed upon procedures and practices, it can never be in the long-term interest of the state or its citizens to flout those procedures at home or associate too closely overseas with the enemies of your founding ideals.

We must distinguish better than some of our predecessors between desirable ends and unacceptable means.

There would have been no need for Fidel to start a revolution in the first place. It's a dismal pattern that has been repeated over and over again in the decades since Batista fled, with the United States propping up a string of appalling dictators in Iran, Vietnam, Chile, and Panama, to name a few. The tragedy is that it has almost always led to disastrous results. By betraying its own principles, the United States has also managed to defeat its most basic strategic goals.

If what you're sowing isn't evil, you should have nothing to fear.

I hope I never get so hard up I have to do advertisements. I've gotten ridiculous offers.

Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century.

I am writing a manifesto and there's nothing I want, and yet I'm saying certain things, and in principle I am against manifestos, as I am against principles.

A theoretical grounding in agronomy must, therefore, include knowledge of biological laws.

If you're not cheering for me, for what I'm doing, don't cheer for me. Don't cheer cause you think I'm cute, you know what I'm saying, screw that. Cheer for me for what I'm doing, for what I stand for, and when I go to jail you should cheer louder.

fundamental values are not chosen from thin air based on the desires of executives; they are discovered within what already exists in an organization.

teamwork ultimately comes down to practicing a small set of principles over a long period of time

enduring, successful companies adhered strictly to a fundamental set of principles that guided their behaviors and decisions over time, preserving the essence of the organization.

But is that not corruption, Jack? You were always very much against corruption when you were young, I mean younger.' 'So I am still: corruption in others is anathema to me. But you would scarcely credit the depths of turpitude I should descend to myself for a thousand a year;

I have noticed that some old men lose their sense of honour, and will cheerfully avow the strangest acts.

In the words of human rights scholar Max Stackhouse, "Intellectual honesty demands recognition of the fact that what passes as 'secular,' 'Western' principles of basic human rights developed nowhere else than out of key strands of the biblically-rooted religion."9

Courage without conscience," wrote Robert Green Ingersoll, "is a wild beast.

It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled;