Quotes About Principle

We like layers of character and personality in our storytelling. We like very distinctive, unique personalities interacting with each other. And I think, because there are two of us, and we're a collective, we identify with that. We call it the mastermind principle: Two minds aren't doubly better than one - they're exponentially better than one.

My judicial philosophy is straightforward.

It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.

I'm not going to give a courtesy gift to a person who's going to win, and I'm not going to give a sympathy gift to a person who's going to lose.

Boland took the unexpected position that the use of force in pursuit of a principle lowered its value. Collins agreed with Beaslai who quoted Shaw's Armourer: 'Nothing is ever done in this world unless men are prepared to kill one another, if it is not done.

Don't confuse fairness with justice. Justice is about doing what is right. Fairness means everyone gets exactly the same thing.

could not find a lawyer in Muncie brave enough to take on his defense of free speech.

There is not in the world a more ignoble character than the mere money-getting American, insensitive to every duty, regardless of every principle, bent only on amassing a fortune," Roosevelt said just before he became president.

There is not in the world a more ignoble character than the mere money-getting American, insensitive to every duty, regardless of every principle, bent only on amassing a fortune," Roosevelt said just before he became president.

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.

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Might did make right, not just in practice, but as a matter of principle; and, of course, this conclusion came very close to abolishing the very idea of principle.

What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes.

St. Hierotheos, the great teacher quoted by Dionysius in his book on Divine Names: "As form giving form to all that is formless, in so far as It is the principle of form, the Divine Nature of the Christ is none the less formless in all that has form, since It transcends all form....

There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.

Reasons always came with a purpose, to give the appearance of a struggle between principle and desire. Principle had power only until you found what you had to have.

It is a principle of diplomacy that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly.

Even true believers had consciences, Too bad.

I come by my conservatism authentically, not by convenience. And I offer the American people a new direction.

The law often allows what honor forbids.

Abortion is either OK or it's not.

First and foremost is what this country was based on: one nation under God.

That's why I believe that we must never fail to affirm that we are indeed one nation under God.

In my opinion, you start messing with what this country was founded on, and our baseline is what we call it, it opens up too many - too many doors. You start messing with that, people can say religion kills people. So, let's start messing with that.