Definition: an accepted or professed rule of action or conduct; a guiding sense of the requirements and obligations of right behavior
Quote: There are three principles in a man’s being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don’t do what I say. — Martin Buber (1878-1965) Austrian Philosopher