Quotes About Principle

You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!

Courage is virtue which champions the cause of right.

Stand for right, even if you stand alone.

And real nobility (that of the heart) is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means.

Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.

The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes.

If you don't stand for something, you stand for nothing.

The bravest of individuals is the one who obeys his or her conscience.

There is no courage but in innocence; no constancy but in an honest cause.

Great courage will be required to choose the right.

To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.

Courage is the virtue which champions the cause of right.

When moral courage feels that it is in the right there is no personal daring of which it is incapable.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right.

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

Thus is the fruit of the Earth taken, its flesh torn. Thus is it given over standing, toward rot. It is the principle of corruption, the death of what is, the birth of what is to be. You are wine.

Neither a philo- nor an anti-Semite be; / And it must follow, as the night the day, / Thou canst not then be false to any man.

Paul Tillich once defined forgiveness as remembering the past in order that it might be forgotten—a principle that applies to nations as well as individuals.

Christianity has a principle, "Hate the sin but love the sinner," which is more easily preached than practiced. If Christians could simply recover that practice, modeled so exquisitely by Jesus, we would go a long way toward fulfilling our calling as dispensers of God's grace.

I will go to war should there ever be a cause I think worth dying for--and not before.

If a thing could not be accomplished honestly, probably it wasn't worth accomplishing at all.

Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy... Understand that I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many times.