Quotes About Principle

I am committed to the principle that violence is never justified as a means of ameliorating a grievance.

I don't support violence, period.

If I do not respond to some situation, my conscience kills me. I believe in permissible violence, not necessarily non-violence.

I'm a very great non-violent character. I would never resort to violence to change anything.

Abortion is not a right. It is a violent act against the defenseless. It violates every principle of morality and should be barred by American law. Until that day, I fully support bans on partial-birth abortion, third-trimester abortion, and indeed every limit that can receive public support.

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

Plato said that virtue has no master. If a person does not honor this principle and rejoice in it, but is purchasable for money, he creates many masters for himself.

Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.

Faith is the foundation upon which a godlike character is built. It is a prerequisite for all other virtues.

It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim 'never say never' is one of the most important in ethics.

If selling had been part of his job description, Rusbridger, who never met a pound he had to earn that didn't disgust him in some visceral way, would have been disqualified long ago. Indeed, his early enthusiasm for the Internet - and a continuing principle of faith for him - was that it was free.

To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter, could function on its own; rather, ethics is an interior principle of the economy itself, which cannot function if it does not take account of the human values of solidarity and reciprocal responsibility.

To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is.

I do not have, nor do I believe I have seen, a vision capacious and convincing enough to propound as an organizing principle for the next phase in the law of our Constitution.

We Americans can be rightly proud of the fact that the right to the free and unfettered exercise of religion is a primary principle in the vision and founding of our country. It defines us as a people, and has uniquely contributed to making this nation great.

The problem is;doing bad in the name of good.

To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.

A principle that can't bear being laughed at, frowned on, and cold-shouldered, isn't worthy of the name.