Quotes About Principles

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

What is right, what is morally just, cannot be silenced or kept in the shadows. There is no stronger spotlight than the truth.

They used Akbar's principles to formulate a version of Islam that could peacefully co-exist with other religions (or so they claimed). An Emperor's Bequest to Islam , their joint 1,300-page doorstopper, spent twenty weeks on the New York Times bestseller list in hardcover alone. The fact that they remained practicing Muslims (albeit the liberal, wine-guzzling kind) put their message in high international demand.

In order to make simple the great truths of Nature and the abstract principles of natural law, the vital forces of the universe were personified, becoming the gods and goddesses of the ancient mythologies. While

A fin de simplificar las grandes verdades de la naturaleza y los principios abstractos de la ley natural, las fuerzas vitales del universo se personificaron y se transformaron en los dioses de las mitologías antiguas.

how liberal democracy, already weakened at its own hand, is being undermined by the enforced negation of its principles by the onslaught of terrorism.

Assimilate the principles (or, core) of a system, and you can tack on the details later if you're interested.

It's easy to maintain your integrity when no one is offering to buy it out.

Most men admire Virtue who follow not her lore.

Luther's principles for the internal, and Machiavelli's practice for the external, direction of the State were to be the ideal for many generations.

Of all people who engage in controversy, we, who are called Calvinists, are most expressly bound by our own principles to the exercise of gentleness and moderation.

What gospel principles do not, legal motives cannot do.

The true and acceptable principles of mortification shall be afterward insisted on. Hatred of sin as sin, not only as galling or disquieting, a sense of the love of Christ in the cross, lie at the bottom of all true spiritual mortification.

Richard Atleo's Principles of Tsawalk

The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.

There is no reason to suppose ahead of time that the principles satisfactory for the basic structure hold for all cases.

The other limitation on our discussion is that for the most part I examine the principles of justice that would regulate a well-ordered society. Everyone is presumed to act justly and to do his part in upholding just institutions.

Great men do not play stage tricks with the doctrines of life and death: only little men do that.

Would it be an ideologue or a lover?

At such a time it seems natural and good to me to ask myself these questions. What do I believe in? What must I fight for and what must I fight against?

Why, Jesus Christ, Ma, they comes a time when the on'y way a fella can keep his decency is by takin' a sock at a cop.

It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times.

As a leader you must be sincerely committed to what's right rather than who's right.

Never lie. Never cheat. Never steal.