Quotes About Principle

noncooperation with evil is just as much a moral duty as is cooperation with good. So

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.

For relatively small stars, the Pauli exclusion principle keeps the electrons in a star sufficiently separated to prevent the star from contracting further after it has spent its fuel. In other words, the electrons counteract the crushing gravitational force. However, for stars more than about 1.5 times the mass of the sun (a mass known as the Chandrasekhar limit), this repulsive force would not be enough to stop stellar collapse.

Advocacy is not adherence or principle if it knows no law.

Honesty is a not a code word but a lifestyle.

a system of belief which confused the desirable and the inevitable was still a dogma.

But peace is not a principle: merely a desirable state of affairs.

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

The so-called symptoms of disease are manifestations of an inherent principle of the organism to restore healthy function and to resist offending agents and influences.

The grand truth about Nathaniel Hawthorne. He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.

I mean it, it's another gap in your education. Until you can learn to understand her, you'll get nowhere as a detective. She's everybody's conscience, Bob—the universal maiden aunt, cousin or sister. Humanity's backbone. Throughout history, she's gone to the stake for you again and again; not with any sense of heroism, but as a matter of principle and because it would never occur to her to do anything else.

Everything that happens is always simple. And there's a principle to how things proceed, assuming that they last.

Occam's Razor shaves you closer.

Let us say, his will is convinced, but not his conscience.

Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)

Have you ever heard that virtue is its own reward?' Cardan says pleasantly. 'That's because there's no other reward in it.

I would rather be right and die than be wrong and kill.

Power is action, and the elective principle is discussion.There is no policy, no statesmanship possible where discussion is permanent.

Power is action the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no principle, however immaculate, that has not had its compromising manipulator.

If a religious principle is worth anything, it applies to a million of human beings as truly as to one; and the difficulty of insisting on its wider application does not furnish any proof that it ought not to be so applied.

I am most willing to answer all questions about myself… But… I am not willing, now or in the future, to bring bad trouble to people who, in my past association with them, were completely innocent of any talk or any action that was disloyal or subversive.

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

The negative principle that no law is free law, is not much known except among lawyers.