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Quotes About Principle

Reducing net E.U. migration need not mean undermining the principle of free movement. When it was first enshrined, free movement meant the freedom to move to a job, not the freedom to cross borders to look for work or claim benefits.
~ Theresa May
America has always understood this principle of the economy - that everyone can benefit when everyone competes.
~ Julia Gillard
Growing up, my parents were Roman Catholic - strict Catholics - from New Orleans. I understood the idea in the principle of spirituality. I noticed it in the stories that I read. The Trinity was something that was brought up consistently: the power of three. Things happened in threes, and I thought that was brilliant.
~ Dawn Richard
I want it understood that all these men fought for principle, not for plunder, and that they were true-hearted, honorable soldiers, fighting for what they esteemed was a righteous cause.
~ Cole Younger
If you look back at President Bush, nobody agreed with his policies, but you understood that he was doing things that he believed was right.
~ Martin Heinrich
The Undertaker stood up for what was right. He earned everything he got.
~ Bret Hart
Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love.
~ Chuck Schumer
Infinites, when considered absolutely without any restriction or limitation, are neither equal nor unequal, nor have any certain proportion one to another, and therefore, the principle that all infinites are equal is a precarious one.
~ Isaac Newton
Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of quantum uncertainty, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.
~ Edward Witten
Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of quantum uncertainty, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. String theory does so again because a point particle is replaced by a string, which is more spread out.
~ Edward Witten
I cannot stand unfairness.
~ Sylvie Guillem
If the Republican party essentially becomes the white party, it is going to be the death of it, not only for demographic reasons but for reasons of principle. The party of Lincoln is a party of opportunity for everyone. It's a party about the right to rise, and Mr. Trump unfortunately doesn't represent that view.
~ Bret Stephens
Right or wrong. When you stand on a principle..you're never wrong.
~ Sandra Chami Kassis
Most of the people readily accept the principle but resist its practice.
~ Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
Depend upon it, he who wishes to win the prize must come on the principle that two and two make four.
~ Nicholas Wiseman
Every person should have the right to practice and believe what they want, as long as it does not infringe on another person's freedom.
~ Michael Phillip Cash
Integrity is a virtue which defines the depth of life.
~ Debasish Mridha
It's not about right belief
~ it's about right practice.
I understand now that you cannot fight for a noble cause with heinous actions.
~ Andre Mikhailovich Solonitsyn
Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Virtue is doing it.
~ David Starr Jordan
Truth respects no ism.
~ Fakeer Ishavardas
Only wise men can differentiate between what is a matter of pride and what is a principle of dignity.
~ Sameh Elsayed
When you get a principle on which everyone is agreed, you get the beginning of complacency and deterioration.
~ Idries Shah
I have always hated war and am by nature and philosophy a pacifist, but it is the English who are forcing war on us, and the first principle of war is to kill the enemy.
~ Constance Markievicz