Quotes about Principle
If you think that the dignity of your life cannot be cancelled with the stroke of a pen then I think you should think again.
— Cormac McCarthy
Lincoln once began a letter saying: "Everybody likes a compliment." William James said: "The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
— Dale Carnegie
The principle of neighborhood at home always implies the principle of charity abroad. (pg. 260, The Idea of a Local Economy)
— Wendell Berry
Of two evils choose neither.
— Charles Spurgeon
It is conceded that nothing contrary to reason can be true. But it is no less important to remember that nothing contrary to our moral nature can be true.
— Charles Hodge
It should be held as an eternal truth, that what is morally wrong can never be politically right.
— Hannah More
He seemed evidently more fond of controversy than of truth, and the whole turn of his conversation indicated that he derived his religious security rather from the adoption of a party, than from the implantation of a new principle.
— Hannah More
Every kind of integralism, open or disguised, is contrary in principle to true catholicity, which can win to itself and comprise all things only if it delivers itself up and dies like the seed to rise again.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
In principle this implies something else, something harder to grasp, namely, that his whole suffering—a suffering that goes to the utter limits—follows from and actually expresses his eternal, triune joy.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
When facing a dilemma, choose the more morally demanding alternative.
— Harold S. Kushner
I shall continue to do what I think is right, whether anybody likes it or not.
— Harry S. Truman
We admit no faith to be justifying, which is not itself and in its own nature a spiritually vital principle of obedience and good works.
— John Owen