Quotes about Principle

The fullest application of ahimsa does make life impossible.

The Law which governs all life is God.

We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves that is our only commitment to others.

God is not a vague abstract principle or force but a living person who fellowships with His people.

The will of God is not something you add to your life. It's a course you choose. You either line yourself up with the Son of God…or you capitulate to the principle which governs the rest of the world.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Choice is the strongest principle of growth.

I remember from my school days Archimedes jumping into his bath and displacing water and coming up with his famous principle, and of course Isaac Newton being hit on the head with an apple. In other words, this realm of human knowledge - which is mathematical, essentially - can have a playful visual element to it.

My own personal popularity can have no influence over me when the dictates of my best judgment and the obligations of an oath require of me a particular course. Under such circumstances, whether I sink or swim on the tide of popular favor is, to me, a matter of inferior consideration.

Never judge a philosophy by its abuse

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.

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