Quotes About Principle

It is always the right time to do the right thing.

We are opposed to the line of compromise with imperialism. At the same time, we cannot tolerate the practice of only shouting against imperialism, but, in actual fact, being afraid to fight it.

The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.

It's time to realize that one cannot combat one injustice by invoking and using another injustice

Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.

He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

The tradition of always looking for the answer in the most fundamental way available - that is a great tradition, and it saves a lot of time in this world.

My dad once told me, he was like, 'The only time you should lie is when someone's holding a gun to your head and says 'Okay, lie or I'm going to shoot you.'' And that really stuck with me.

The time is always right to do right

By the time the civil service has finished drafting a document to give effect to the principle, there may be little of the principle left.

While the proximate ground of discrimination may be of another kind, still the pervading principle and abiding test of good breeding is the requirement of a substantial and patent waste of time.

I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps.

The principle put forth by the great French criminalist Edmund Locard—that the criminal always leaves something of himself (no matter how minute) at the scene of his crime, and always carries something of the scene away with him (again, no matter how infinitesimal)—has not changed in seventy-five years; the tools of the criminalist have simply become more sophisticated.

thinking about A. J. Muste, who during the Vietnam War stood in front of the White House night after night with a candle. One rainy night, a reporter asked him, "Mr. Muste, do you really think you are going to change the policies of this country by standing out here alone at night with a candle?" "Oh," Muste replied, "I don't do it to change the country, I do it so the country won't change me.

One man's sin does not justify another's.

Lestat thought the best color at all times for vampires was black, possibly the only aesthetic principle he steadfastly maintained, but he wasn't opposed to anything which smacked of style and excess.

If you live by your conscience you do what you want.

a conception of an expansive power that goes beyond previous understandings, and justifies it, not by an appeal to legal authority or political principle, but by a Manichaean myth that depicts two formations locked in a death struggle. One is the representative of absolute justice, the other of absolute injustice.

Better to be judged by twelve than carried by six

Your integrity is more precious than your life.

Sometimes to do the right thing, we must keep a promise we never made.

I never, ever would or did rob anyone in my life.

My dear fellow, my whole life is moved by the principle that the one thing which is more important than peace is music. It is because I believe that I am poor.

I am one to believe that life starts at the moment of conception.