logo

Quotes About Principle

I will happily support anything that protects life.
~ Ted Cruz
Sometimes in life if you wanna do something good, you gotta do something bad.
~ Timothy Olyphant
As I said, I believe life starts at conception.
~ Todd Akin
Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.
~ Wendell Phillips
I've already got my rent paid, and it's too late in my life for me to go around talking up stuff that I don't like or believe in.
~ Wilford Brimley
Base thy life on principle, not on rules.
~ John Lancaster Spalding
I loved the audacity of that American principle which says. When life gets tainted or goes stale, junk it! Leave it behind! Go West!
~ Jonathan Raban
Throughout my life, I have always tried to do what is right.
~ Kevin Shelley
A satyagrahi lays down his life, but never gives up. That is the meaning of the 'do or die' slogan.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolent defence presupposes recklessness about one's life and property.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The Law which governs all life is God.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The fullest life is impossible without an immovable belief in a Living Law in obedience to which the whole universe moves.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Ahimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
What is God? God is the great life that fills the universe; it is the principle of life aswell.
~ Masahisa Goi
What I've learnt is when you walk into a family argument and people tell you it's about principle don't get involved. There is more to life than principles.
~ Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman
The connecting principle, the force that expands our consciousness beyond ourselves, appears to be love.
~ John E. Mack
We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves that is our only commitment to others.
~ John F. Kennedy
I tell you I always tip. It's a matter of principle with me. I'm like Hemingway. I always do it second-nature.
~ John Fante
Never be proud of doing the right thing;
~ John Feinstein
you should never be proud of doing the right thing. You should just do the right thing." To
~ John Feinstein
A man does what he must -- in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers -- and this is the basis of all human morality.
~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable.
~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
But then, in his lifetime, Halt had often ignored what was technically legal. Technicalities didn't appeal to him. All too often, they simply got in the way of doing the right thing.
~ John Flanagan
The right to a trial is a core principle of the American legal system. Depriving Americans of these essential liberties undermines the Constitution while doing nothing to strengthen our national security.
~ John Garamendi