Quotes about Principles
Justice at the deepest level had but few stalwart champions.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
What you're saying may get you a foundation grant but it won't get you into the kingdom of truth.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Constructive ends can never give absolute moral justification to destructive means, because in the final analysis the end is preexistent in the means.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
One of the first principles of nonviolence is a willingness to be the recipient of violence, while never inflicting violence on another.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Never, never be afraid to do what is right. Society's punishments are small compare to the wounds we inflict on our souls when we look away
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards and judgment in order to appeal to the irrationality, stupidity, or dishonesty of others.
- Ayn Rand
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.
- Ayn Rand
Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men.
- Ayn Rand
I loathe your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved.
- Ayn Rand