Quotes About Principle

Be the measure great or small, let it be honest in every part.

I have already said and will continue to say that I won't respond to personal abuse, and I never make any personal abuse, ever, to anybody. I just don't do that kind of politics.

I will never say something I don't agree with or believe in... even if the reward is massive!

Right is right and wrong is wrong.

Righteousness is on our side.

I only have one rule: I don't do anything for money; that's my rule.

Because, when it comes to restoring the rule of law, I can't change my mind and I won't change the subject.

I'd rather fail doing what I believe in and feel satisfied that I tried.

I have never wavered in my support for the Second Amendment.

I don't have a gun, I've never owned one and never will.

I'm never going to beg for pardon for exercising fundamental rights.

The party of Kennedy is also the party of Eastland. The party of Javits is also the party of Goldwater.

To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is.

I am interested in justice, not the law. There is an unfortunate difference.

Bush is morally a universalist. For instance, he says the freedom is good, the same thing is good, all over the world. So in that sense he's a universalist.

The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.

Having rejected any transcendent source, Nietzsche comes to hold that the principle of this becoming and struggle must lie in material things themselves, things considered as "dynamic quanta, in a relation of tension to all other dynamic quanta.

Add to that the age-old principle of Ockham's razor in problem-solving: "If there are a number of possible solutions, the simplest one, based on the fewest assumptions, is most likely to be correct.

It's the anthropic principle's evil twin, he thought.

Nüzhet bana yalan söyledi. Dünyan?n hiç bir Nüzhet'i yalan söylememelidir.

Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson, "Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest

Quantum objects may in principle have a number of observable properties, but we can't gather them all (Copenhagenists might in fact say 'elicit them') in a single go, because they can't all exist at once. And by gathering some we may scramble the values of others.

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

Occam's Razor' (so-called because the principle encourages one to cut out unnecessary complications from theory) is ultimately aesthetic: why postulate two things when one will do? Or as Occam is said to have put it, 'It is vain to do with more what can be done with fewer'.