Quotes About Principle

Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

I'm looking for all the things that are beneficial in the human genome. Everything that I do is based on a very simple principle: things that are beneficial will spread through populations very quickly.

As a matter of principle, we are opposed to destabilising a stable government, and I believe in the norms of healthy democracy.

I have been offered obscene amounts to do commercials and stage shows abroad, but as a matter of principle, I am against them.

CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake here. The principle is that Dan Rather doesn't work for the police, and that people that speak to Dan Rather understand that he's a journalist and not a police agent.

Southern conservatives care about government's moral stance but don't mind when it spends freely on behalf of their constituents. Western conservatives, by contrast, are soft-libertarians who want government out of people's way on principle.

Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority.

I stand by the principle of honesty, fair play, and trustworthiness.

All I have is my truth, and all I have is my truth to stand on it.

I don't think that has to be our choice... This party was born in principle. This party will die if it doesn't stand by its decision of principle.

I want to stand for something, and it's probably going to be something that some people stand against.

I'm not going to stand for something I don't believe in.

When you just stand for something, you kind of stand for it.

You have to have enough conviction to stand for something. It doesn't matter if it's the opposing party or your own party.

It's really important for everyone in our community to stand for something.

Stand up for what you know is right.

I will support my party when they are right on an issue, but am not afraid to stand up to party bosses who are not looking out for the best interests of my constituents and our country.

When you really believe something, you need to stand up for it.

We can't live in fear. There are going to be people who will disagree with us, but it's important for us to stand up and say what's right and what's wrong.

It is not only all right but necessary to stand up to George Bush.

I think people are hungry for someone who will stand up on principle.

You have to be willing to stand up for what you believe in, and the rule of law is one of those things.

Flag-burning is plain wrong, and I'll stand up for free speech - even speech I don't like.

We must stand up for the principle of parliamentary democracy and not allow the government's failure in the Brexit process to be a licence for the U.K. to crash out of the E.U. without an agreement.