Quotes About Principle

They'll Have to shoot me first to take my Gun.

Patativa do Assaré: "É melhor escrever errado a coisa certa do que escrever certo a coisa errada...

A [real] man does not flee from truth

Fasting is the first principle of medicine; fast and see the strength of the spirit reveal itself.

The biggest scientific delusion of all is that science already knows the answers. The details still need working out but, in principle, the fundamental questions are settled.

As Terence McKenna observed, "Modern science is based on the principle: 'Give us one free miracle and we'll explain the rest.' The one free miracle is the appearance of all the mass and energy in the universe and all the laws that govern it in a single instant from nothing."4

I'm pro-choice. But I hope that choice will be life.

We are the planet, fully as much as water, earth, fire and air are the planet, and if the planet survives, it will only be through heroism. Not occasional heroism, a remarkable instance of it here and there, but constant heroism, systematic heroism, heroism as governing principle.

Only do shit you believe in!

Why don't you check out those teenagers in the middle row? They've been going at it like dogs in heat ever since the previews. They're probably both werewolves. And even if they aren't, you should throw them out on principle alone.

Part of being a man is doing what is right, no matter what people think of you. That is the sacrifice you must make.

Confronta-nos, realmente, a inflexível necessidade de descobrir um princípio de diferenciação, e contudo de relação, bastante lúcido para justificar e purificar o conhecimento científico, filosófico e qualquer outro, ao mesmo tempo que aceitando sua mútua interdependência.

He spent the afternoon watching the indicator light turn from red to orange to green and thought about how useless it was to be angry at anybody about an abstract principle...How could any idea that drives a man away from the people who love him be considered sound?

Being just may not always be easy but it's always required.

Just because something is the law, doesn't make it right.

Never pledge your allegiance to anyone, to anything, other than to what is just.

I played it right because that's what you're supposed to do - play it right and with respect.

I understood that being loving and compassionate is not an idea. To live in empathy is not some esoteric principle. This is the way a human being is made. If you do not identify with anything you have accumulated over a period of time, including your body and mind, you will be able to experience this.

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.

I have more respect for a man who let me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who is for or against it.

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Asia and Europe are corners in the Universe; every sea, a drop in the Universe; Mount Athos, a clod of earth in the Universe; every instant of time, a pin-prick of eternity. All things are petty, easily changed, vanishing away. All things come from that other world, starting from that common governing principle, or else are secondary consequences of it.