Quotes about Principle

It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

Love is the supreme unifying principle of life.

A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.

I have given them the glory you gave to me, That may be one as we are one. With me in them and you in me, may be so perfected in unity that the world will recognize that it was you who sent me and that you have loved them as you loved me. (JOHN 17:22—23 NJB)

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.

If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications? To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip.

so long as the interest of the whole society requires it, that is, so long as the established government cannot be resisted or changed without public inconvenience, it is the will of God … that the established government be obeyed—and no longer. This principle being admitted, the justice of every particular case of resistance is reduced to a computation of the quantity of the danger and grievance on the one side, and of the probability and expense of redressing it on the other.

Woe to him whose good name is more to him than goodness.

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought

I may not agree with what you have to say but I will fight you to the death for the right to fight you to the death.

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.