Quotes About Principle

M]y conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen.

I cannot choose but adhere to the word of God, which has possession of my conscience; nor can I possibly, nor will I even make any recantation, since it is neither safe nor honest to act contrary to conscience! Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise, so help me God! Amen.

I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

Inequality, in other words, is precisely the principle upon which their social life is based and is made possible.

Nor should the basic elements of this program be imperiled by partisanship.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do Edmund Burke (1729–97)

No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. - William Shakespeare Richard III (Act I, scene ii) Protection is not a principle but an expedient. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881

divine healing Principle as manifested in Jesus, whose humble prayers were deep and conscientious protests of Truth,—of man's likeness to God and of man's unity with Truth and Love.

Cicero reflects exactly that when he sums up Servius Tullius' political objectives in approving tones: 'He divided the people in this way to ensure that voting power was under the control not of the rabble but of the wealthy, and he saw to it that the greatest number did not have the greatest power – a principle that we should always stand by in politics.

Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.

We are all born for love... it is the principle existence and it's only end.

The principle of love within us is an attribute of the Deity, and it is placed within us to be dispensed independently according to our own will.

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

One should never take the easy road, but rather the right road, no matter how long the travel.

Duty . That was a word I hated as much as tradition .

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

we must require an agreement to the principle that there are no sacred cows. Anything and everything must be the subject of free inquiry and skeptical investigation. To allow otherwise, for practical or any other kind of reasons, is an intellectual travesty.

O Universo tinha tendência a mergulhar no caos e na entropia. Era um princípio de termodinâmica simples. Talvez também fosse o princípio de uma existência básica.

But thou, my son, study to make prevail One colour in thy life, the hue of truth.

Be neither saint- nor sophist-led, but be a man!

How good, and how strong, it is to take a principled position