#principles

Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions. ↗

— Ian Smith

#courage #covers #everything #freedom #justice

Are your principles not engraved in all hearts, and in order to learn your laws is it not enough to go back into oneself and listen to the voice of one's conscience in the silence of the passions? There you have true philosophy. Let us learn to be satisfied with that, and without envying the glory of those famous men who are immortalized in the republic of letters, let us try to set between them and us that glorious distinction which people made long ago between two great peoples: one knew how to speak well; the other how to act well. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#athens #conscience #ethics #immortality #morality

Do you keep silent to keep a friendship or do you try to lend your support unconditionally, even if what they are doing goes against everything you believe in? Will it be principles over friendship, morality over love? ↗

— Donna Lynn Hope

#morality #principles #friendship

Some people can be so generous when they give nothing away! ↗

— Rossana Condoleo

#generous-people #gratitude #lack-of-values #life-lessons #people

The money in the schools overpowers the principles of the purpose. ↗

— Miroslav Vitous

#principles #purpose #schools

A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#deduction #generated #judgement #laws #may

The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition. ↗

— John Acton

#absolute power #authority #based #between #choices

It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. ↗

— Alfred Adler

#easier #fight #live #principles #than

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. ↗

— Alfred Adler

#fight #live #principles #than #them

I follow a set of principles, I follow the Constitution. And that's what I base my votes on. Limited government, economic freedom and individual liberty. ↗

— Justin Amash

#constitution #economic #economic freedom #follow #freedom