Quotes About Principle

I will not say nothing. I will defend my church and my religion when it is insulted and spit on.

I take toleration to be a part of religion. I do not know which I would sacrifice; I would keep them both: it is not necessary that I should sacrifice either.

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.

All atheists must examine the Non Aggression Principle.

A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government.

And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know.

For me, dressing is always a question of principle, respect, a sense of order, not to disguise myself, even in rotten places.

America is today the hope of all honorable men who respect the rights of their fellow men and who believe in the principle of freedom and justice.

We respect law, when the law respects our needs. Whenever legality clashes with morality, legality should be opposed and morality should be upheld.

I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred.

Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views.

No, I don't believe in God, but I respect the fact that you do. Everyone has to have something to believe in.

I mean, if a thing works, if a thing is right, respect that, acknowledge it, respect it and hold to it.

The first principle of aid is respect.

Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.

I'd rather be broke and have a whole lot of respect. It's the principle of it.

A courageous man prefers death to the surrender of self-respect.

We cannot respect something just because millions or billions believe in it! We can respect something only if it is complying with the high intelligence and ethics!

Respect is better procured by exacting than soliciting it.

I think that if you make a strong statement of principle, even if the folks disagree with you, people will respect you for it.

To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.

Someone once said a cynic is just a disappointed romantic. That really, really sums me up.

We are passing through an unheroic phase of history when the man who has escaped passive conformism and follows the voice of his own conscience is a hero.

When you do what you know is right,' Father explained, 'you find a dignity in yourself that makes you a happy person.