Quotes About Principle

Trust is a big deal in life, and I'm very old-school about that stuff.

Central to the effective functioning of early capitalism was the fundamental principle of trusting and being trusted.

The object of the superior man is truth.

Justice is truth in action.

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.

I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily.

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

We want to assert the very principle that truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.

Well, the truth is always what should be told. And the truth and the knowledge of the truth is what everybody should represent, regardless of the consequences of doing it.

You have to do what is real and what is right and what is good and what you believe in. It doesn't mean it's always going to work. It doesn't. But when it does, it is truthful and forever.

I think that whoever is the attorney general, you don't want them to be as a yes person for any particular constituency.

He was a man who would never ask for sympathy. He was a man who sought only to do what was right. Such people appear in the world, every world, now and then, like a single refrain of some blessed song, a fragment caught on the spur of an otherwise raging cacophony.

There are those here who believe they are right simply because they oppose something that is evil.

A person's right to believe, however, does not grant them an automatic license to act indiscriminately on those beliefs.

The lamp of divine, written revelation reveals the will of God for the believer. Whether it is expressed by biblical command or precept, by scriptural example or principle, the Word illumines the path every believer must take. This divine light in Scripture is not a mere option, but an absolute necessity for every follower of Christ.

This was the chief underlying principle of Calvin's exposition: He was always seeking to discover the "one definite thought" behind what the biblical author wrote. Calvin believed this was the expositor's first duty:

Hacker Ethic: like lines of code in a systems program, compromise should be bummed to the minimum.

engineering comes down to two real principles: The first is that you think of every problem as a system. And every system can be better. No matter how good or bad it is, you can make anything better—

known as the anthropic principle, ehich states that the laws of nature should allow the existence of intelligent beings that can ask about the laws of nature.

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

There was no easy path to what was right, what was truth.