Quotes About Principles

Hate is not wrong when you hate what is wrong.

Apart from the principles of the Bible, you cannot be the man, the husband, and the father you may be.

Memories seem to be stored using a variety of mysterious principles, so that you have to circle around and around, through misty clouds of association, before you can relocate some missing piece. It is easy to persuade yourself of the truth of something for which the only evidence is a strong urge to believe. Douglas

The cultured man has the obligation to be intolerant.

Ethical rules vary; honour does not change. A man is noble if he prefers to fail rather than to debase the tools of his triumph.

Sólo de causas perdidas se puede ser partidario irrestricto.

Toda sociedade que se crê senhora de sua história, que se sente segura de seus propósitos, convicta da excelência de seus princípios e persuadida de possuir a verdade, tiraniza e oprime.

Conservatism should not be a party but the normal attitude of every decent man.

Genuine thought only discovers its principles at the end.

De muchas cosas me pueden culpar mis enemigos. Pero de dos, jamás: de ser ladrón o maricón"[40

Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; we can never reenter it once we are on the outside.

We must fight their falsehood with our truth, but we must also fight the falsehood in our truth.

I don't believe there is any such definition, there is no such thing as evil, only moral judgments based on what society believes to be wrong behavior.

Follow the words, not the person.

It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion.

The person who is defined by integrity understands that everything they do is a statement about who they are as a person.

Don't tell them how to do it!  Just teach them the principles of Lean, challenge them, and let them do it."   John Miller – Gemba Research

Based on his work with plasticity, Taub has discovered a number of training principles: training is more effective if the skill closely relates to everyday life; training should be done in increments; and work should be concentrated into a short time, a training technique Taub calls "massed practice," which he has found far more effective than long-term but less frequent training.

Come back to basics comprises three points. The first point is more

Contrary to what is being taught in many public schools, truth is not relative but absolute. If something is true, it's true for all people, at all times, in all places.

Man abides in truth. As one prizes truth, so one cherishes oneself. Whoever betrays truth, betrays himself. We speak not of lies here, but rather of acts against convictions.

They consider it a sin to take any life, yet they kill and kill.

A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.