Principle Quotes · Page 14

Instead of embracing change, the E.U.'s precautionary principle has held back progress.

— Priti Patel

A principle is a truth that is established by God that can never be changed.

— Myles Munroe

On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.

— Thomas Jefferson

Structure is not just a means to a solution. It is also a principle and a passion.

— Marcel Breuer

As an actor, what you really want to do is communicate with people - this is my aim, my principle aim.

— Pierfrancesco Favino

Honesty in principle was one thing. In someone’s face, it was another.

— Sarah Dessen

Doctinaires are the vultures of principle. They feed upon principle after it is dead.

— David Lloyd George

One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.

— Plotinus

I draw my idea of the form of government from a principle in nature, which no art can overturn, viz. that the…

— Thomas Paine

I think that, in principle, a workshop is such a beautiful idea - an environment in which writers who are collectively apprenticed…

— Eleanor Catton

“Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are…

— Richard Feynman

It is together that we will be able to save our biodiversity. This is a principle of effectiveness. But it is also…

— Albert II, Prince of Monaco

I don't think I could have tackled 'The Pura Principle' until now. It takes me about twenty years to come to term…

— Junot Diaz

Science is a principle and a process of seeking truth. Truth cannot be purchased, and thus, truth cannot be altered by money.

— Tyrone Hayes

There is only one principle, and this is Good. There is no principle of evil. If there were a principle of evil,…

— Henry Thomas Hamblin

Following the principle that you should know your enemy, the BBC has assiduously recorded the relentless rise of Rupert Murdoch and his…

— Adam Curtis

We are accustomed to first-principle thinking, where you assume the fewest number of things in a particular time frame. Zeroth-principle thinking is…

— Bryan Johnson

I am sure that in Canada the people appreciate this principle, and the general intelligence which prevails over that country is such…

— Alexander Mackenzie

“What the mediocrity principle tells us is that our state is not the product of intent, that the universe lacks both malice…

— John Brockman

Bipartisanship has taken us to the brink of bankruptcy. We don't need bipartisanship, we need application of principle... Where was the call…

— Richard Mourdock

“The Principle of Last Responsible Moment means waiting to make a decision until you need to. In general, early and potentially uninformed…

— Anonymous

The legal principle placing the burden of proof on accusers rather than the accused can be traced back to Second and Third…

— Bob Barr

A cardinal principle that we must not stray from - no exceptions - is that your genetic information is your business in…

— Francis Collins

The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that…

— Tariq Ramadan

I have worked for Tesco and am grateful to them but in principle I believe in individual shops.

— Prunella Scales

Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The vast majority of politicians think they are functioning on high principle.

— George E. Brown, Jr

Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.

— A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.

— Terence

“...we ought not meanwhile to make use of doubt in the conduct of life.”

— René Descartes

The most fundamental principle of the law is that it must apply equally to everyone.

— Julia Hartley-Brewer

The most important principle of environment is that you are not the only element.

— Mahavira

“The principle of godliness must be believed and embedded as the culture to live by.”

— Sunday Adelaja

My principle and my faith is what is driving me from the get-go.

— Israel Folau

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I think anything which improves services is in principle a good thing.

— Tony Abbott

The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

— W. Somerset Maugham

I think a basic principle of our Constitution is nobody above the law

— Barack Obama

“There's a fine line between standing behind a principle and hiding behind one.”

— Dean Devlin

The only principle that does not inhibit progress is: anything goes.

— Anonymous