Men's moral principles are weak enough without their being made subordinate to selfishness; and their selfishness is quite active enough, without any such effort as Christianity makes to constitute it the mainspring of all their conduct.
Buy your fair-trade coffee beans by all means, but don't assume fair-trade principles govern the conditions of the men who fetch it to you. You would be mistaken.
There's more than one way to get to the goal that you want to get to, but once you compromise your own principles, then you're lost. You're really lost.
The creative principle is less about dogma and more about opening ourselves to the evolution of consciousness.
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum." (Adlai E. Stevenson, 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician)
Times have changed since George Herbert... but the principle and spirit in which he ministered as a priest remains an inspiration and model for all priests.
A mother`s job is not complete till she has taught and imbibed God`s Words, and principles into her kids.
Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations.
Voters never have to question where I stand - my principles or priorities. I am a pro-freedom, pro-America and pro-life conservative.
It has today occurred to me that an amplifier using semiconductors rather than vacuum is in principle possible. [Laboratory notebook, 29 Dec 1939.]
Even if we have to go without bread, we Albanians do not violate principles. We do not betray Marxism - Leninism.
The moment you are doing something to SPITE someone, just know you are the one with something to lose, which is HONOUR and PRINCIPLE.
I see four principles as laying the foundations for the kind of economic recovery Europe needs: fairness, efficiency, solidarity and growth.
Many states rely on sales tax as their principle source of revenue and do not have a State income tax.
To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.
To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
The first principle of achievement is mental attitude. People begin to achieve when they begin to believe.
I was taught that in this country if you work hard, you can do anything, and I don't see a lot of those principles in children's books today.
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
There is only one principle of war and that's this. Hit the other fellow, as quickly as you can, as hard as you can, where it hurts him most, when he ain't lookin'.
