Quotes About Principles

Find satisfaction in following your philosophy. If you want to be respected, start by respecting yourself.

But I'll get money, and then share it." If you can acquire riches without losing your honor and self-respect, then do it. But if you lose what is dearest to you, no amount of money can make up for it.

If what charms you is nothing but abstract principles, sit down and turn them over quietly in your mind: but never dub yourself a Philosopher, nor suffer others to call you so. Say rather: He is in error; for my desires, my impulses are unaltered. I give in my adhesion to what I did before; nor has my mode of dealing with the things of sense undergone any change.

Consider at what price you sell your integrity; but please, for God's sake, don't sell it cheap.

He didn't care; it was not his skin he wanted to save, but the man of honour and integrity. These things are not open to compromise or negotiation.

and following your ideals is the only thing worth dying for.

Life offers more than one option for doing the right thing.

Belief passes, but to have believed never passes.     18

Ethical principles stand above the existence of the nation and that by adhering to these principles an individual belongs to the community of all those who share, who have shared, and who will share this belief.

Jesus and Satan appear here as repre sentatives of two opposite principles. Satan is the representative of material consumption and of power over nature and Man. Jesus is the representative of being, and of the idea that not-having is the premise for being. The world has followed Satan's principles, since the time of the gospels.

MORAL, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

Les principes sont comme des attaches, des amarres ; quand on les rompt, on se libère, mais de la manière d'un gros ballon rempli d'hélium, et qui monte, monte, monte, donnant l'impression de s'élever vers le ciel, alors qu'il s'élève vers le néant.

sayg?nl?k sat?l?k bir kad?n gibidir

Majority has no brain. It is just a momentum. Truth, kindness, human values, and morality are more important than majority. Always recheck majority with morality.

Our ideals are our better selves.

Not faith but moral behavior is the essence of all religion.

Yes, well, you did not boycott the place that fed you, even if they stood against everything you stood for.

To propose an agreement on principles does not involve or imply that the Western world should be Orientalized ; propaganda is out of the question as between gentlemen, and everyone must make use of the forms appropriate to his own psychophysical constitution. It is the European that wants to practice Yoga ; the Oriental points out that he has already contemplative disciplines of his own.

It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

I freely acknowledge that it is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

Mas, sendo o Exército uma administração como a Agricultura, as Finanças ou a Instrução Pública, não se concebe como possa existir uma justiça militar, quando não existe uma justiça agrícola, nem justiça financeira, nem justiça universitária. Toda justiça privada está em oposição aos princípios do direito moderno.

Não concebo por que misturam, nesse caso, considerações políticas e paixões partidárias. Ele é superior a tudo isso, pois que é uma questão moral.