#principles

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses. ↗

— Confucius

#principles #life

If you want to check someone's principles, give him authority .. Then have a seat & watch ↗

— أحمد عمارة

#life-lessons #principles #life

Even in the privacy of our own thoughts, we can’t sow lies and reap truth. ↗

— Katina Ferguson

#principles #life

The hard core of morality and even of religion seems to me to be just what makes good comedy possible...Where there is no norm, nothing can be ridiculous, except for a brief moment of unbalanced provincialism in which we may laugh at the merely unfamiliar. Unless there is something about which the author is never ironical, there can be no true irony in the work. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#humor #irony #morality #principles #writing

Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated ↗

— Alan Wilson Watts

#principles #truth #love

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any moan, however much we have suffered from him. ↗

— Socrates

#injustice

Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#simplicity #life

So now is the time, more than ever, for those who truly value all the principles of democracy, especially including dissent, to be the most forceful in speaking up, standing up and speaking out. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#dissent #especially #ever #forceful #including

For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#any #believe #communal #democratic #firmly

A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned. ↗

— Xun Zi

#any #beautiful #born #desires #ears