Quotes About Principle

In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.

In the end, you should always do the right thing, even if it's hard. I know that might not help you and that the right thing isn't always so easy to figure out.

My soul is not for sale.

I'm going to stand in my truth no matter what.

I was right to back Muhammad Ali, but it caused me major enmity in many areas of this nation.

In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.

If you want to stay in for the long haul, and lead a life that is free from illusions either propagated by you or embraced by you, then I suggest you learn to recognize and avoid the symptoms of the zealot and the person who knows he is right. For the dissenter, the skeptical mentality is at least as important as any armor of principle.

The United States makes large claims for itself, among them the claim that the nation is the model for a society based simultaneously on democracy and multiethnicity. It's certainly no exaggeration to say that on the success or failure of this principle much else depends. But there must be better ways of affirming it than by clinging to an insipid parody of a two-party system that counts as a virtue the ability to escape thorny questions and postpone larger ones.

My challenge: Name an ethical statement or action, made or performed by a person of faith, that could not have been made or performed by a nonbeliever.

the chief principle of banana-ism is that of kleptocracy, whereby those in positions of influence use their time in office to maximize their own gains, always ensuring that any shortfall is made up by those unfortunates whose daily life involves earning money rather than making it.

If you have ever argued with a religious devotee, for example, you will have noticed that his self-esteem and pride are involved in the dispute and that you are asking him to give up something more than a point in argument.

Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all republicans, we are all federalists. If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

obrar siempre de manera que podamos convertir la máxima de nuestra conducta en ley universal».

Very often in my experience, the extraneous or irrelevant complexities are inserted when a matter of elementary justice or principle is at issue.

Das Prinzip Moral verstehe ich nicht.« »Das überrascht mich nicht im geringsten.«

I know what we do is right but right doesn't always mean easy.

So the question becomes, If you are ever faced with this choice are you willing to die for what you believe in? For that is the only way you will deny him. [...] It's a difficult question and not one you can answer until you're faced with it. Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.

you are ever faced with this choice, are you willing to die for what you believe in? For that is the only way you will deny him.

So the question becomes, if you are ever faced with this choice, are you willing to die for what you believe in? For that is the only way you will deny him.

If you are ever faced with this choice, are you willing to die for what you believe in?

We don't always get to do what we like. Sometimes we have to do what is right, not what we want

Honor is an overvalued commodity.

Marriage. I had nothing against it in principle. In an abstract way, I thought it was a very good idea. But it was irritating the way it always cropped up in one form or another, stretching its tentacles back to bind me before I had even begun to think about it seriously, threatening to disrupt my life before I could even call it my own.

The Bible is the anchor of our liberties