Quotes About Principle

I'm not the kind of guy who's taking advantage of my position.

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

If I ever lose a job because I've talked about being an atheist, then I don't want that job.

For 18 years I have resisted talking about current events. I am not going to start now.

On principle, we should be suspicious of explanations for other people's beliefs and behaviors when those explanations imply they would believe and behave as we do, if only the were as mature and enlightened as we are

For that we'll need a focused subspace wave packet that will induce a signal in normal space. You can almost think of it as Faraday's induction principle applied across a subspace to normal space interface.

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

And I told you, I'm not going to pursue another man's girlfriend. You want to talk honor. There it is in its purest form

Just because we want something doesn't mean it's right

Being right wasn't nearly as important as doing right....

Only a human would die for an idea.

Truth is more important than modesty

Je n'approuve pas le meurtre, dit la reine. - Mais ce sont eux-mêmes des meurtriers, fit remarquer le chef de l'armée de terre. - Ce n'est pas une raison pour suivre leur exemple, répliqua la reine, ce ne sont pas deux torts conjugués qui feront valoir le bon droit. - Et deux bons droits ne font pas un bon gauche! s'exclama le BGG.

Non è con un torto che dobbiamo far valere il nostro diritto. Se no è un diritto storto

The air of compromise is rarely appreciated fully by men of principle. C. Vann Woodward

From somewhere, back in my youth, heard Prof say, 'Manuel, when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.' He had been teaching me something he himself did not understand very well—something in math—but had taught me something far more important, a basic principle.

The whole principle (censorship) is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.

The fact that he had broken his oath more times than there were years intervening did not trouble him; his was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency.

A magician is a rule-of-thumb engineer.

Indian government seemed as furious over fish as fishermen – but principle of sacredness of all life did not apply to us; they wanted our heads.

I'm not suggesting anything. People get hurt every day. This matter must be cleared up, Joseph, for everybody. The greatest good of the greatest number, as you are so fond of quoting.

They were all three amazingly beautiful; they were also amazingly good secretaries. In Harshaw's opinion the principle of least action required that utility and beauty be combined.

Do You Have a PROBLEM? Nothing is illegal—it isn't what you do; it's the way that you do it.