Quotes About Principles

the American founding document promises that if humans act according to its sacred principles, millions of them would be able to cooperate effectively, living safely and peacefully in a just and prosperous society

Even if the market offers a good price, certain things just aren't done. Parents mustn't sell their children into slavery; a devout Christian must not commit a mortal sin; a loyal knight must never betray his lord; and ancestral tribal lands shall never be sold to foreigners.

Particularly telling are civilisation-style strategy games, such as Minecraft, The Settlers of Catan or Sid Meier's Civilization. The game may be set in the Middle Ages, the Stone Age or some imaginary fairy land, but the principles always remain the same – and are always capitalist.

Parents need to teach their children principles of respect and acceptance.

Marxism comprises many principles, but in the final analysis they can all be brought back to a single sentence: it is right to rebel.

We should go to the masses and learn from them, synthesize their experience into better, articulated principles and methods, then do propaganda among the masses, and call upon them to put these principles and methods into practice so as to solve their problems and help them achieve liberation and happiness.

There are two principles for creative success -- one general and one definitive. The general principle is that everyone has the ability to be creative and make a big difference in this world. The definitive principle is that almost everyone has volunteered to be exempt from the general principle.

I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.

If right were ultimately right, its differentiation from not-right would require no debate.

Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life … all areas of life.

Don't remove stones from foundation to build walls and decorate windows

If patriotism were defined, not as blind obedience to government, nor as submissive worship to flags and anthems, but rather as love of one's country, one's fellow citizens (all over the world), as loyalty to the principles of justice and democracy, then patriotism would require us to disobey our government, when it violated those principles.

One pretends that manners are the formalisation of basic kindness and consideration, but a great deal of the time they're simply aesthetics dressed up as moral principles, aren't they?

For an educated person, intelligence is important but character is more important.

Depravity feeds on depravity, and with no sense right and wrong, there is nothing for them to hold on to.

Had David Irving been the defendant in a case seeking to censor his lies, and had he lost, it might be argued that the loss compromised principles of free speech. But Irving was the plaintiff here. It was he who was trying to censor Lipstadt's truth by suing her for defamation.

Everything that she valued had come to her through change, and through change she would one day lose everything. All except honor.

Knowledge has organizing power inherent in it. It is simply enough to know, to be aware of the principles;

book of 2000 by Craig Gay (With Liberty and Justice for Whom?: The Recent Evangelical Debate over Capitalism), which showed that evangelical Christians on the left took wealth as given, manna, and "hence applied their Christian/Biblical principles only to the problem of (static) distribution, whereas the evangelicals on the right emphasized incentives to the ongoing creation of wealth, innovation, etc."8

The best way to implement the key principles is with low management fee index funds, which help you diversify, minimize costs, stay disciplined and capture market returns wherever they may occur," says Dejan Ilijevski, president at Sabela Capital Markets in Munster, Indiana.

We need knew knights, but without swords.

Very rarely do people make big compromises with their integrity. Almost every compromise is a small one that is easily justified. The downhill slide is usually a result of many little compromises.

Ce ne est pas vrai que la fin justifie les moyens. Le succès et la richesse ne comptent pas, sauf se ils sont atteints avec honnêteté et intégrité, en jouant juste et carré à chaque étape de la vie à mon humble avis.

Es importante recordar que cuando se pierde la riqueza, nada se pierde; cuando se pierde la salud, se pierde algo; pero cuando se pierde el carácter, todo está perdido. Mi amigo, llevar su vida con la verdad, la honestidad y el carácter -siempre!