Quotes About Principles

Conflict is the microscope of a book. When it's trained on a character, you see what's underneath the narratives of physical description. You see whether someone is strong or weak, principled or apathetic, heroic or villainous. (J.R. on writing the BDB series)

Even though they were not in love, he was exactly what she would have wanted as a father for her young. Ever since she had made the decision to participate in the real world, she had learned how rough life was, how others could conspire against you—and how sometimes principled force was all that got you through the night. Qhuinn had the latter in spades. He was a great, fearsome protector, and that was precisely what a female needed when she was pregnant, nursing, or caring for a young.

He was not immoral, but merely unmoral.

All my reading and studying of them has taught me that law is one thing and right is another thing. Ask any lawyer. You go to Sunday-school to learn what

All my reading and studying of them has taught me that law is one thing and right is another thing. Ask any lawyer.

What is not good enough for you is not good enough for other men, and there's no more to be said.

Because of his very great love, he could not steal from this man, but from any other man, in any other camp, he did not hesitate an instant; while the cunning with which he stole enabled him to escape detection.

I have a certain perspective and intolerance for people who try to twist and bend whatever the truth might be.

Good and evil. Right and wrong.Those are two fundamental opposing concepts that define the nature of humankind.

God is love, and His law is love. Its two great principles are love to God and love to man.

Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions.

There are things I take sides about, like capital punishment, which it seems to me there is only one side about: it is evil. But there are two or three sides to sexual harassment, and the moment you get into particular cases, there is injustice in every conceivable direction. It's a mess.

I'm an old-school type of guy.

If you take 100 breast-cancer samples, 100 types of cancer have 100 different hallmarks of mutated genes. You could be nihilistic and say, 'Oh, God, we'll never be able to tackle this!' But there are deep, systematic, organizational principles at work in all that diversity.

Maybe there's two types of people in the world: those people who favor humans over ideology, and those people who favor ideology over humans.

Having principled men and women in office is how you protect yourself from tyranny, and that was something I learned from when I was 2, 3, 5 years old.

Everyone assumes I practise all of my own laws but I don't. I think anybody who did would be a horrible ugly person to be around.

I would not rule out going to Israel because I disapprove of the foreign policy any more than I would refuse to play in the UK because I disapprove of Tony Blair's foreign policy.

I would never let somebody say that they're me. That would be the ultimate betrayal of what I stand for.

Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.

We have tried to define precisely what it means to be a force for good - always do the right, ethical thing. Ultimately, 'Don't be evil' seems the easiest way to summarize it.

Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not.

When under siege, if we do not stand for our liberties and for the liberties of those who are unable to stand for themselves, then the great American experience will come to an end.

Sam Nunn might bring us Georgia and maybe even another Southern state but, in my opinion, at an unacceptable cost to our principles and to the concept of change that has stirred millions to rise and work for Barack Obama. Sam Nunn would be a disaster as a running mate and a total anathema to millions of Americans.