Quotes About Principle

I'm someone who believes in centrist governing philosophy.

I've always said, 'I am a selector, I am not defector' - the first few phrases in English I learned. I said I hate 'defector'; something defective about the people. It's a bad word.

I don't pick up fights casually. I fight for what is right.

We can't pick and choose when to adhere to the Constitution and when to cast it aside.

You can't pick and choose the rules depending on the colour of someone's skin. That is what the racists do.

I'm a conservative. I believe in the idea of freedom and liberty, but more importantly, look at my voting background. I voted against bailing out Wall Street. I voted against, never voted for, a tax increase.

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

I'm not a politician. I don't want to be a politician, because politicians do what is politically expedient. I want to do what's right.

Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country.

Gen. Mattis is a warrior. What I appreciate about Gen. Mattis is he understands the principle that if you go to war, you go to war to win.

Let the one who seeks justice be just.

He who turns the other cheek is a cowardly dog -- a Christian dog.

If a man smite you on one cheek, smash him down; smite him hip and thigh, for self-preservation is the highest law.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.

States!... Go put your creed into your deed.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Go put your creed into your deed.

If we had to accept the principle of numerical superiority while selecting our national bird, the choice would have fallen not on the peacock but on the common crow.'13

Right is right even if no one is doing it and Wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it. This saying is proven right by maskless Delhi duo when they said rightly that whole world has been fooled by corona protocol and lockdown rule.

They said, Now we are capitalists! but all Ulrich could see was criminality to a principle.

Everything is as it's supposed to be at that moment. But change is the rule, the guiding principle. All is flux. All is refinement, correction, rectification. And that, my love, is the reason for everything. Change. And its potential for improvement." She almost groaned out loud. Another

On the surface, Thorne's mathematical reasoning is impeccable. Einstein's equations indeed show that wormhole solutions allow for time to pass at different rates on either side of the wormhole, so that time travel, in principle, is possible. The trick, of course, is to create the wormhole in the first place.

It took guts to ignore public opinion and so what you thought was right.

It took guts to ignore public opinion and do what you thought was right.