Quotes about Principle

Anyone on the side of truth, wherever it led, was a compatriot to be lauded.

Some wondered whether he was just kicking against the goads, but when someone asked Bonhoeffer whether he shouldn't join the German Christians in order to work against them from within, he answered that he couldn't. 'If you board the wrong train,' he said, 'it is no use running along the corridor in the opposite direction.

Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.

Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.

Justice is truth in action.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

I'm an independent conservative. And what I mean by that - when I think we're right, I'm with us all the way, and I am a conservative. And I think my record reflects that.

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

Honor is like a match, you can only use it once.

Sometimes, to do the right thing, we must keep a promise we never made.

Old Mr. Towers believed exactly what he preached and somehow it made a tremendous difference.

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.