Quotes About Principle

Justice can rarely exist without honesty.

But rarely have I made choices that made me feel I was really compromising what I believe.

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

I prefer to die rather than eat beef.

I came into office to do what was correct, not to see what was politically expedient to get re-elected.

As a principle, I will never react to film criticisms. As long as they are part of film fraternity, whatever they say will be beneficial to cinema.

I am sure that in Canada the people appreciate this principle, and the general intelligence which prevails over that country is such that I am sure there is no danger of a reactionary policy ever finding a response in the hearts of any considerable number of our people.

It is a core principle that prosecutors should charge and pursue the most serious readily provable offense.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

I am ready to rot in jail for the rest of my life rather than admit that my small-minded enemies are right.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

I can't grab anything that comes my way just because it's from a big banner.

I'm a combative person, I know I am, and the greatest thing about law school was I learned to fight with my brain. I clarified something to myself. No matter how much you want to live in the white man's world, you either live by what you believe in, or you die.

I guess coming out against actual evil takes guts.

One should never fight for a country. One should fight, if one has to, for what one believes to be right. A country is only as good as its leading citizens.

I am a great believer that anything not expressly forbidden is explicitly allowed. - Mogget

For the whole law can be summed up in this one command: "Love your neighbor as yourself." —Galatians 5:14

Ann, if you are willing, I would like to do an experiment. I would like to see what would happen if we apply this principle to your marriage.

Il semble que dans le monde intermédiaire où se mêlent rêverie et réalité, il se réalise une plasticité de l'homme et de son monde sans qu'on ait jamais besoin de savoir où est le principe de cette double malléabilité

You see, you don't despise money. Nor do I. Wealth is stuffy and stupid and arrogant, and the only good thing about it is that it has money. Money's lovely stuff—just look at this." He held up the owl. "See how it shines? On one side the owl: the male principle. On the other, the Lady of Thought: the female principle." He spun the coin on the table. "Money always gives you something to think about.

But even regarding History as the slaughter-bench at which the happiness of peoples, the wisdom of States, and the virtue of individuals have been victimised — the question involuntarily arises — to what principle, to what final aim these enormous sacrifices have been offered.

In Mohammedanism the limited principle of the Jews is expanded into universality and thereby overcome. Here, God is no longer, as with the Asiatics, contemplated as existent in immediately sensuous mode but is apprehended as the one infinite sublime Power beyond all the multiplicity of the world. Mohammedanism is, therefore, in the strictest sense of the world, the religion of sublimity.

La transgresión del orden es el principio del placer.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.