Quotes about Principle

You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!

Stand for right, even if you stand alone.

And real nobility (that of the heart) is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means.

Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.

Refuse to compromise what you know to be right for anyone or anything.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right.

Christianity has a principle, "Hate the sin but love the sinner," which is more easily preached than practiced. If Christians could simply recover that practice, modeled so exquisitely by Jesus, we would go a long way toward fulfilling our calling as dispensers of God's grace.

Jesus viewed his own destiny - to be glorified in and through death - as an expression of a kind of cosmic principle: the pathway to life runs through death.

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

Faith is the foundation upon which a godlike character is built. It is a prerequisite for all other virtues.

To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter, could function on its own; rather, ethics is an interior principle of the economy itself, which cannot function if it does not take account of the human values of solidarity and reciprocal responsibility.