Quotes About Principle

The Bible says, 'The truth shall make you free.' But let's not forget it was Spiro Agnew who said that a good lie will keep you out of jail in the first place.

There is no wisdom but that which is founded on the fear of God, which Solomon also declares to be the chief part of wisdom.

For what is force? - that which moves matter. And what is matter? that which is moved by force.. Like all other basic principles, this is also self contradictory.

The man of integrity who is true to self and to God will choose the right whether or not anyone is looking because he is self-driven, not externally controlled.

Loyalty was the most fundamental of samurai virtues. Without loyalty there was nothing. To Kawakami, who had looked at loyalty from every possible angle - examining loyalty was, after all, his occupation - it had become increasingly clear that the days of personal allegiance were coming to an end. Loyalty, in the future, must be to a cause, a principle, an idea, not a man or a clan.

Doing the right thing isn't always the right thing to do!

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Even if there is dishonor in the truth, Chevalier, less that dishonor if one confesses it in defence of his person.

If you don't know this by now, mate, you'd better write it down and learn it by heart: the right thing is not always the same as what's in your pretty little rule book.

a simple principle: how our habitual patterns take shape and are reinforced. And it holds the secret of what we can do to break free of destructive habits.

A Buddhist principle holds that awareness leads to empathy.

Galileo held the truths he had discovered to be of very great significance, but as soon as they endangered his life he recanted with the greatest of ease. He felt that whether the earth or the sun revolved around each other was not worth his life. He may also have felt that it was more important for him to live and work so that his students could spread the truth.

Conservatism is founded on the principle of equality of opportunity, not result.

Occam's razor or the law of parsimony, which states that when two theories compete to explain an unknown phenomenon we should err on the side of the simpler explanation.

They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

Protecting free speech is not only a matter of principle, it is also pragmatic.

So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.

Poking fun at other people's beliefs, while it may seem frivolous and offensive, is a non-negotiable right. It is a principle that underpins free speech, the basis for progress.

I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thing.

I'm a believer in the Constitution and in the First Amendment. Not just for raising money but also for freedom of speech.

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

Your spirit is your spirit, whether you're religious or whatever.

If you are ideologically opposed to income splitting for families, why wouldn't you scrap it for seniors? What is the distinguishing principle between income splitting for people with kids and income splitting for people who are retired?

Antagonistic cooperation is the principle of all markets and many marriages.