Quotes About Principle

Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as a governing principle.

Law has no skin, reason has no nostrils.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

Cowardice asks the question - is it safe? Vanity asks the question - is it popular? Expediency asks the question - is it political? But conscience asks the question - is it right? There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, popular, or political; but because it is right.

I have been an Anarchist all my life.

Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.

The very idea that a child that is almost born into the world could still have their life taken from them is just anathema to me, and I can't conscious about a party that supports that.

I'm very close to the pro-life movement.

Life without prejudice, were it ever to be tried, would soon reveal itself to be a life without principle.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals.

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

NO, I will not accept straight edge into my life!

I am pro-life. I hate the concept of abortion.

We live in a culture that discourages empathy. A culture that too often tells us our principle goal in life is to be rich, thin, young, famous, safe, and entertained.

Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident in it.

The American way of life is not negotiable.

In a way then, the Divine Principle, this new revelation, is the documentary of my life. It is my own life experience. The Divine Principle is in me, and I am in the Divine Principle.

I spent an important part of my life participating in conflicts. But for me, conflict was not the main principle.

In the book I define conservatism, as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution, respect for life, less government, and personal responsibility.

The secret of living is to find a pivot, the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.

The omitting the Word will be regarded as an Endeavour to conceal a principle of which we are ashamed.

The virtue she valued most was faith. It had no place on Franklin's list. She placed her trust in Providence. He placed his faith in man.

Nowhere do the words "slave" or "slavery" appear in the final document. "What will be said of this new principle of founding a right to govern Freemen on a power derived from slaves," Pennsylvania's John Dickinson wondered—correctly, as it would turn out. He predicted: "The omitting the Word will be regarded as an Endeavour to conceal a principle of which we are ashamed."49