Quotes About Principle

Who despises all that is despicable is made to be impressed with all that is grand.

we are confident that the fundamental principle of long-term ownership of quality companies is a sensible one, new

We do some things because we should, whether it feels good or not. Nonetheless, doing what we should ought not necessarily feel bad.

Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.

In principle if I could not have a home I wouldn't. But not having a home would be too difficult procedurally, going from hotel to hotel, the gap of three hours where you're hungry and tired.

His father taught him that standing up for what you believe in comes with a price but that backing down exacts a toll that your soul never stops paying.

The measure of a man's character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

A quantum state is a useful tool because it can do just that. This is our next principle: Given the quantum state of an isolated system at one time, there is a law that will predict the precise quantum state of that system at any other time. This law is called Rule 1. It is also sometimes called the Schrödinger equation. The principle that there is such a law is called unitarity.

To quote Richard Dawkins, in The Blind Watchmaker, "The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is, in principle, capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity. Even if the evidence did not favor it, it would still be the best theory available." The

Might does not make right, but right demands that those who hold to it should defend it with all their might.

Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights.

Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence.

Yes, of course. A matter of principle, was it? I've always said that matters of principle are the very last things that should provoke a man to seeking recourse in the law courts. The same might well be said of the recourse to violence.

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

nobody ever said doin' the right thing was easy. Simple, yeah, but not easy. Rusty

Lincoln's) experience as a lawyer compelled him not only to see that there is a principle underlying every phenomenon in human affairs, but that there are always two sides to every question, both of which must be fully understood in order to understand either, and that it is of greater advantage to an advocate to appreciate the strength than the weakness of his antagonist's position.

the Super Structure Principle may be stated as follows: The power of your story is directly proportional to the readers' experience of it, and the readers' experience is directly proportional to the soundness of the structure.

he cut his way out of the jungle of these prepossessions, accepted the equality of all men in Christ, and applied this principle relentlessly in all its issues.

Surely, in history, "truth should be held sacred, at whatever cost.

If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I will never be tricked into it.

I was so anxious to do what is right that I forgot to do what is right.

There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley

It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that upright integrity, that strict adherence to truth and principle, that distain of trick and littleness, which a man should display in every transaction of his life.