#principles

I many no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather response to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not. ↗

— Jim Elliot

#bring #depend #enjoyable #feel #i

The individual makes a clear effort to define moral values and principles that have validity and application apart from the authority of the groups of persons holding them and apart from the individual's own identification with the group. ↗

— Lawrence Kohlberg

#application #authority #clear #define #effort

The United States and Israel have a unique relationship based on our mutual commitment to democracy, freedom, and peace. Therefore, just as our commitment to these principles must be steadfast, so must our support for Israel. ↗

— John Boehner

#commitment #democracy #freedom #israel #just

When they favor the access of other people to education and health care, the countries of the North not only demonstrate generosity or solidarity, but also implement the principles of respecting and promoting human rights. ↗

— Omar Bongo

#also #care #countries #demonstrate #education

A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it's a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what's good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy. ↗

— Bill Bowerman

#basic principles #change #current #darn #differ

You are Americans. You love this country. Together we are entrusted with the principles that represent mankind's greatest political and social achievement. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

#country #entrusted #greatest #love #mankind

I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one's education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent. ↗

— Fannie Farmer

#better #certainly #diet #disease #distant

This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. ↗

— William Burroughs

#games #may #nature #other #ours

The Republicans have put together serious detailed counter-proposals when we have objected to this administration's agenda. And so, I want to tell the President and remind him again, we're not voting no for political expediency. We've got our principles, and we're going to stand up and defend those. ↗

— Eric Cantor

#again #agenda #defend #detailed #expediency

We would fight not for the political future of a distant city, rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth. ↗

— Neville Chamberlain

#destruction #distant #earth #fight #future