Quotes About Principle

Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.

Peace if possible but truth at any rate.

I am passionate about the truth. Passion is very different from fundamentalism.

The real Muslim is the one who prefers speaking the truth even when it is ruinous to him over lying even when it benefits him, and who finds inner peace in doing so.

Bravery is standing with the truth and right

Take the side of truth, you'll be right every time.

Never confuse truth and the latest public opinion poll.

Truth is always right, observing it guarantees us victory in life.

If you speak the truth have a foot in the stirrup.

If you don't make a stand for something you'll never make a stand for nothing..

Speak truth even if you be aloneFor truth hath no friend but itselfKhoiSan Book of Wisdom

Always true to the code," she said.

He knew that you didn't win justice by carrying a sign or a cardboard coffin. You earned it by being on the side of the righteous, by being unswayed from that

It's my policy. -Harry Bosch

Heisenberg uncertainty principle: that whatever you studied you also changed. In the end, it became clear that all scientists were participants in a participatory universe which did not allow anyone to be a mere observer.

The greatest businesspeople I've met are determined to get it right no matter what the cost. And by getting it right, I'm not just talking about the business. I mean that there is something uplifting, some vision, some higher end in sight that "getting it right" would serve. An ethical certainty, a moral principle, a universal truth.

Il principio è sempre buio.

It was an argument about the precautionary principle v. the scientist's desire not to make a mistake, coupled with risk aversion that was all too characteristic of public health bureaucrats. It was literally driving Carter nuts.

I think I have always had a strong sense of justice, of fair play, of what is right and what is wrong.

We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin.

Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile.

Everybody, even me, sometimes had to compromise on something, doing things we know to be wrong, and this happens doing whatever job in the world. But a singer must have the courage of saying no.

Sir, I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere.

But, sir, I shall take the path of duty and shall not swerve from it.