Quotes About Principle

There's a fine line between standing behind a principle and hiding behind one.

I'd rather lose my own money than someone else's.

My dad's era believed that there was something noble in being a good guy - the kind of guy that lived straight and narrow, told the truth, and stood up for what he believed was right.

Let justice be done though the heavens fall.

I am interested in justice, not the law. There is an unfortunate difference.' " He

Do what is right for the right reasons.

If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.

Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody's watching, doing as you say you would do.

What magical trick makes us intelligent? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity, not from any single, perfect principle.

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

The world is not dialectical -- it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.

And I suppose this is you speaking truth to power. The principle your whole life is organized around." Naomi started. There was loathing in the way it was said. She had never suspected. She shook her head sadly. "No, I don't think I can do that anymore. As you pointed out to me, I'm the power. This is me speaking power to truth.

Posiblemente lo más diferenciador sea que no todos los investigadores en ciencias humanas y sociales abrazan el principio de individualismo metodológico tan querido por los economistas[118

When in doubt, do what they do in books, was one of Gabriel's secret mottos and - that rarest of things - a principle that he actually lived by.

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war.

Music is a science which should have definite rules; these rules should be drawn from an evident principle; and this principle cannot really be known to us without the aid of mathematics.

Nothing was more important than the cause, facts included.

The First Amendment says nothing about a right not to be offended. The risk of finding someone else's speech offensive is the price each of us pays for our own free speech. Free people don't run to court, or to the principal, when they encounter a message they don't like. They answer it with one of their own.

I have always been a firm believer in the longstanding American principle of having the right to bear arms and I will remain committed to see that this freedom is not infringed upon, revoked, or limited in any way.

No one can take your honor from you; to lose it, you must give it away...honor is always sin your own hands.

What Tim [Kreutter] is doing is owning people, training them and owning them. Even if he wants them to do good things, the principle is corrupting. It is the seduction principle.

Our bellies are empty and our patience is short...submit to us and we will make of you a great quiche!' 'Again with the QUICHE?! What kind of self-respecting monster would eat a DAINTY PASTRY DISH?! STEW is what we will make of their bones!' 'Don't get greedy on me! There's three of them! I just want the little one for my quiche!' 'It was nothing to do with greed! It's a matter of principle! MONSTERS DO NOT EAT QUICHE!

Do not hang a young man whose only crime is fidelity to his ideal