Quotes about Principle

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting but never hit soft

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.

If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness.

Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.

God is not related to creatures as though belonging to a different "genus," but as transcending every "genus," and as the principle of all "genera."

Thus Dionysius says (Div. Nom. cap. ult.) that "there is no kind of multitude that is not in a way one. But what are many in their parts, are one in their whole; and what are many in accidents, are one in subject; and what are many in number, are one in species; and what are many in species, are one in genus; and what are many in processions, are one in principle." Reply to Objection 3: It does not follow that it is nugatory to say "being" is "one"; forasmuch as "one" adds an idea to "being.

former atheist and astronomer Alan Sandage, said, "As I said before, the world is too complicated in all of its parts to be due to chance alone. I am convinced that the existence of life with all its order in each of its organisms is simply too well put together. . . . The more one learns of biochemistry the more unbelievable it becomes unless there is some kind of organizing principle—an architect for believers.

We should certainly honor the principle that all people are equal in God's sight and entitled to equal protection of the laws as well as fair, courteous, and respectful treatment. But there is no moral imperative that we adopt the notion that all belief systems are equally true. There is a moral imperative that we do not.

Law of Causality, which is the fundamental principle of science. Without the Law of Causality, science is impossible.

The Law of Noncontradiction is a self-evident first principle of thought that says contradictory claims cannot both be true at the same time in the same sense.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?