Quotes About Principle

In 1989 when I switched from Democrat to Republican, with God as my witness, not one thing changed about what I believed about one man and one woman in a marriage or about diversity of color. That's a good thing.

J. Gresham Machen

When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree by the river of truth, and tell the whole world 'No, You Move.

All proof begins with something which cannot be proved, but can only be perceived or accepted, and is called an axiom or first principle.

Those who merely denounce intolerance seem to have no theory at all with which to defend toleration.

To be honest and to be fair were not always the same thing.

We are mighty because we are right, Garviel. We are not right because we are mighty. Vile the hour when that reversal becomes our credo.

What really matters is what you believe.

Ricardo's second principle is that labour is destined never to become more expensive. From the Labour Theory of Value it follows that all increases in productivity and profit principally happen because labour got cheaper.

Action is what separates a belief from an opinion. Beliefs are imprinted through actions.

If I should die," said I to myself, "I have left no immortal work behind me - nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - but I have lov'd the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remember'd.

Nature always tends to act in the simplest way.

He that hath truth on his side is a fool as well as a coward if he is afraid to own it because fo other mens's opinions.

There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare.

the intrinsic motivation principle of creativity, which holds, in part: "Intrinsic motivation is conducive to creativity; controlling extrinsic motivation is detrimental to creativity."11

He said that in an attempt to understand the law—or, for that matter, just about anything—the key was to focus on what he termed the "one percent." Don't get lost in the crabgrass of details, he urged us. Instead, think about the essence of what you're exploring—the one percent that gives life to the other ninety-nine.

This process of linking differentiated parts into a functional whole is called "integration." As we'll see, integration is a unifying principle that will help us to understand the linkage of mind, brain, and relationships throughout our discussions. Furthermore, in IPNB, we propose that integration is the heart of health. Linking differentiated parts into a functional whole is called "integration.

Jesus viewed his own destiny - to be glorified in and through death - as an expression of a kind of cosmic principle: the pathway to life runs through death.

Doing what you thought was right for the country, rather than what was politically expedient, seems almost as quaint now as having civil disagreements with those whose viewpoints differ from your own.

I don't personally believe that villains exist. Villains are just a way of saying that somebody has an opposing conviction.

Demand the ballot as the undeniable right of every man who is called to the poll, and take special care that the old constitutional rule and principle, by which majorities alone shall decide in Parliamentary elections, shall not be violated.

You cannot strengthen the law by violating the law.

Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.

Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.