Quotes about Principles

If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? . . . Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability.

Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men.

I loathe your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved.

Paray? lanetleyen insan, onu ?erefsizce elde etmi?tir; ona sayg? duyan insan, hak ederek kazanm??t?r.

There are three constants in life... Change, Choice and Principles.

No enterprise can become or rains truly great without a core set of principles to preserve to build upon

Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune.

When you lead with integrity you won't always win, but you will always do the right thing.

There are in the souls of wicked men those hellish principles reigning, that would presently kindle and flame out into hell-fire, if it were not for God's restraints. There is laid in the very nature of carnal men a foundation for the torments of hell: there are those corrupt principles, in reigning power in them, and in full possession of them, that are seeds of hell-fire.

The acutely Christian character of the British abolitionist movement is undeniable, for its leaders were all consciously acting out of the principles of their deeply held faith.

Surely the principles as well as the practice of Christianity are simple and lead not to meditation only, but to action.

Jesus did not only communicate ideas and concepts and rules and principles for living. He lived. And by living with his disciples, he showed them what life was supposed to look like, what God had intended it to look like. It was not merely intellectual or merely spiritual. It was all these things together; it was something more. Bonhoeffer aimed to model the Christian life for his students. This led him to the idea that, to be a Christian, one must live with Christians.