principles Quotes

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.

Due process should matter.

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.