Quotes About Principle

I've never been tied to one party or one candidate or even one institution. And that's true even with one church as a Christian. I'm committed to truth and justice.

Never judge a philosophy by its abuse

If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.

Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

The object of faith always determines its quality and worth.

For my whole career in retail, I have stuck by one guiding principle. It's a simple one, and I have repeated it over and over and over in this book until I'm sure you're sick to death of it. But I'm going to say it again anyway: the secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want.

I have been committed to carrying out my duties... in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable rules of ethics and canons of conduct.

Truth is generally kindness, but where the two diverge and collide, kindness should override truth.

Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

Our own heart, and not other men's opinions, forms our true honor.

It is only when a Christian recognizes that drinking is not only a harmful habit, but also a transgression of a God-given principle to ensure our health and holiness, that he or she will feel compelled to abstain from intoxicating substances.

No one can harm you with his or her powerful, intense, or negative emotions, unless you have those same emotions. Other people's feelings awaken within you your matching emotions, through the principle of resonance.

Carob works on the principle that, when mixed with the right combination of fats and sugar, it can duplicate chocolate in color and texture. Of course, the same can be said of dirt.

Mirabelle always ate her lunch on Brighton beach if the weather was in any way passable, but out of sheer principle she never paid tuppence for a chair. We did not win the war to have to pay to sit down, she frequently found herself thinking.

There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.

I agreed a long time ago, I would not live at any cost. If I am moved or forced away from what I think is the right thing, I will not do it.

One cannot say of something that it is and that it is not in the same respect at the same time.

We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right in his own eyes.

We all understand that compromise is part of the legislative process, yet at the same time, I would submit that wilderness is not for sale.

God can not be for, and against the same thing at the same time.

Of course, my views developed in the course of time. But I have always believed in what I did and never acted against my conscience.

The principle I believe in is the principle of protecting our nation. I believe that the United States has the right to attack any country it views as a threat at a time and place of its choosing.