Quotes About Principle

I don't believe in altering the Constitution.

I believe in the Constitution - and I believe in common sense.

If you are going to stand for the rule of law, if you are going to raise your hand and support the constitution, then you need to follow the law.

Anti-corruption is a core constitutional value. It always has been.

I do not enter any controversy.

You won't see me compromising just because it is convenient for me to do so.

My responsibility is to speak out on my own convictions.

I was forced to say, 'I will not censor the Internet.' But I was never convinced.

I don't do any work that I am not very convinced about. That has always been my stand.

At its core, conservatism is not an anti-government movement, and it's not a no-government movement.

The day corruption charges are levelled against me, I would retire and sit at home.

Courage doesn't come by doing what everybody else says. Courage does by what you know is right.

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul.

It takes a special conviction to decide to go against the crowd and to know what is right and to act upon it.

What is crucial is there be laws.

This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here.

There's a certain logic to systems, and that logic is fairly self-evident. It's very straightforward, usually. It might take a little research, it might take a little bit of industry to prize it out, but it's there to be seen.

The first principle of tackling corruption is that you do not engage in it and you have the will to confront it.

Damnation seize my soul if I give your quarters, or take any from you.

When you don't take a stand against corruption you tacitly support it.

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.

In 2015, I signed the no-fossil-fuel-money pledge and I have never taken a dime from that industry, or ever will.