Quotes About Principle

There's no amount of money that can make me shut up about something I think is wrong.

There are not 'many sides' in the fight against hatred and bigotry. There is only right and wrong.

The point never to lose sight of is to be guided by the correct thing, as you see it. It's the only way to approach such profound matters and retain your integrity.

I'm not a do-gooder. It embarrassed me to be classified as a humanitarian. I simply take part in activities that I believe in.

I'm keenly aware of the Principle of Priority, which states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and (b) you must do what's important first.

All three of these paths embody one unifying principle," Vance said. We were now approaching the eighteenth green. "That of surrender. Surrender of the Little Mind to the Big Mind, surrender of the personal ego to the greater wisdom of the Self.

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

This was their moment to stand for something, and they chose to stand for reelection. Let us remember.

Today in the Trump era, many conservatives who believe Trump has denigrated all political discourse and destroyed any meaning of conservatism—which, of course, he has—look back longingly at the National Review as being everything that Trump World is not: clever, erudite, committed to principle.

Too much virtue has a corrupting effect.

No principle in the world is always right, and no thing is always wrong. What was used yesterday may be rejected today, what is rejected now may be used later on. This use or disuse has no fixed right or wrong. To avail yourself of opportunities at just the right time, responding to events without being set in your ways, is in the domain of wisdom. If your wisdom is insufficient, even if you are widely learned and highly skilled, you'll come to an impasse wherever you go.

There are many reasons for a person to lie, but to have a reason to tell the truth, you much have a deep belief, and great courage.

It's not enough to do one's best. One should do what one knows to be right

In principle, it was easy to support the civil rights movement in Mississippi or Washington or on the streets of Detroit. Of course, it was right. But feeling- now, there's a war zone full of land mines which could blow to smithereens any right-thinking individual. And that of course is the territory of race.

When the right person does the wrong thing, it's the right thing.

Mr Hawkins said nothing; the Hawkins' domestic affairs were arranged upon the principle that Fanny supplied the talk and he the silence.

In the simple moral maxim the Marine Corps teaches — do the right thing, for the right reason — no exception exists that says: unless there's criticism or risk. Damn the consequences.

However, the outcome is inconsistent with the general principle that people should not be punished in the absence of culpability, since one who acts on the basis of a reasonable mistake of law lacks moral blameworthiness.

If you can't do something smart, do something right.

Los cambios son meramente cosméticos para que opere el principio lampedusiano: 'cambiarlo todo para que nada cambie.

Cuando hacer lo correcto causa daño, quizás haya que buscar otro camino.

Casi siempre duele cuando haces lo correcto [...]Cuando hacer lo correcto causa daño, quizás haya que buscar otro camino.

I do not declare that I have no intention of marrying on any general principle. If I were to see the right man, no doubt I should eat my words with a ready appetite. The simple fact is, I have never seen him yet, and at the age of thirty, reason inclines me rather to conclude that he does not exist, than to persist in the belief that he is still somewhere to be found

To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to have some kind of guiding principle. A belief of some kind