But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.

There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for.

The hard core of morality and even of religion seems to me to be just what makes good comedy possible…Where there is no norm, nothing can be ridiculous, except for a brief moment of unbalanced...

As nature has uncovered from under this hard shell the seed for which she most tenderly cares – the propensity and vocation to free thinking – this gradually works back upon the character of the...

Moral maturity and freedom require more than mere adherence to the law; they require an understanding of the why and wherefore of its rules and regulations- the principles that make it worthy of their allegiance.

We must not offer people a system of redemption, a set of insights and principles. We offer people a Redeemer.

One of the principles of nonviolence is that you leave your opponents whole and better off than you found them.

I must not forget that these coarsely-clad little peasants are of flesh and blood as good as the scions of the gentlest genealogy; and that the germs of native excellence, refinement, intelligence, kind feeling, are...

We are quite close to a common definition of safe harbor principles.

It is right that we should stand by and act on our principles; but not right to hold them in obstinate blindness, or retain them when proved to be erroneous.

God’s principles work whether we believe them or not.

An excellent mother knows she has the beautiful life, and she is a big time programmer.

It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree — make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is...

The Vatican is very clear about the principles that China advanced for developing China-Vatican relations.

Poverty has a way of taking the edge off principles. Hunger can blunt them altogether.

The task of a truly revolutionary party is not to declare that it is impossible to renounce all compromises, but to be able, through all compromises, when they are unavoidable, to remain true to its...

I follow the course marked out by my principles and, what is more, enjoy a deep and noble pleasure in following it. You deeply despise the human race, at least our part of it; you...

And here is the point, about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because these are necessary...

Oh, those grumblers! They all take principles as motives and dare not follow their desires.

It is the bungled crime that brings remorse.

This would not have happened if we didn’t have partners that are advocating democratic principles and shared democratic values. And I certainly include in this list the United States of America and your personal contribution.

There is a quality about women who choosemen sparingly;it appears in their walkin their eyesin their laughter and in theirgentle hearts.

To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.

So is the road to peace,” Cambridge observed.

He has disregarded those principles and shown newly found dictatorial tendencies.

We Catholics have not only to do our best to keep down our own warring passions and live decent lives, which will often be hard enough in this odd world we have been born into....

A mother`s job is not complete till she has taught and imbibed God`s Words, and principles into her kids.

God is the source of wisdom for dream accomplishment. This is the principal principle.

I’m all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better...

The United Nations should become a proactive agent in the dissemination of democratic principles.

Sound principles will not justify our taxing the industry of our fellow citizens to accumulate treasure for wars to happen we know not when, and which might not perhaps happen but from the temptations offered...

The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition.

When the Washington Post telephoned me at home on Valentine’s Day 1989 to ask my opinion about the Ayatollah Khomeini’s fatwah, I felt at once that here was something that completely committed me. It was,...

Ideas do have consequences in history, yet not because those ideas are inherently truthful or obviously correct but rather because of the way they are embedded in very powerful institutions, networks, interests, and symbols.

The sign of a good conscience is for a man to be in support of basically everything that Westboro Baptist isn’t.

If you held to principle so passionately, so inflexibly, indifferent in the particulars of circumstance – the full range of what human beings, with all their flaws and foibles, might endure or create – if...

Motherhood is a blissful chain…I have a mother – my precious gift…I am a mother – the best of my kind!

The central claim of the book is that effective analytic designs entail turning thinking principles into seeing principles.

Are your principles not engraved in all hearts, and in order to learn your laws is it not enough to go back into oneself and listen to the voice of one’s conscience in the silence...

Now this was one of the things I had been brought up to eschew like disgrace; it being held by my father neither the part of a Christian nor yet of a gentleman to set...

I find that I am most happy and healthy when I am living in alignment with my goals, dreams, and principles.

A mother has the best of all smiles; she is a wonderful friend, lover and adviser.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.”[The New Statesman, February 25, 1933]

Reforms will come as all great reforms have always come in ridding us of evils against both man and animal–not as we change our moral principles but as we discern and accept the implications of...

Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.

In matters of principals, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.

It is always easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.

But what [Orwell] illustrates, by his commitment to language as the partner of truth, is that ‘views’ do not really count; that it matters not what you think, but how you think; and that politics...

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

Give a man a noble cause and he would fight to the death for what he believed in,but get the woman he loves to leave him and his once honourable principles would cease to be...