#principles

Now this was one of the things I had been brought up to eschew like disgrace; it being held by my father neither the part of a Christian nor yet of a gentleman to set his own livelihood and fish for that of others, on the cast of painted pasteboard. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#political #principles #inspirational

Principles are what people have instead of God. To be a Christian means among other things to be willing if necessary to sacrifice even your highest principles for God's or your neighbour's sake the way a Christian pacifist must be willing to pick up a baseball bat if there's no other way to stop a man from savagely beating a child. Jesus didn't forgive his executioners on principle but because in some unimaginable way he was able to love them. 'Principle' is an even duller word than 'Religion'. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#ethics #jesus #love #morality #principles

Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#principles #religious #inspirational

In order every one in our homeland learns principles of democracy and the peaceful transition of power, and in order to stabilize and develop multiple choices in democratic practice. ↗

— Ali A. Saleh

#democracy #democratic #develop #every #homeland

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. ↗

— Aesop

#end #gives #having #his #others

I don't believe you outsource your convictions and principles to people. ↗

— Jeb Bush

#convictions #i #outsource #people #principles

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#hardly #principles #rigidly #see #sticks

I joined the Labour party because I believed in equality, in freedom of speech and in tolerance, compassion and understanding for people, irrespective of their background and views. In whatever I decide to do in the future I will hold to those principles. ↗

— Geoff Hoon

#because #believed #compassion #decide #equality

I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota. ↗

— Gustave Courbet

#art #hope #i #iota #life

There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles. ↗

— Stephen Covey

#change #choice #constants #principles #three