“You need a body to preserve your soul, not a set of abstract principles.” — Ahmed Mostafa Copy Share Image
We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding. — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles. — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
Principles are things which one calls upon to avoid something unpleasant. — Multatuli Copy Share Image
Chymia, or Alchemy and Spagyrism, is the art of resolving compound bodies into their principles and of combining these again. — Georg Ernst Stahl Copy Share Image
After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question. — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
The Occupy Wall Street protests at last suggest that America's wealth gap is once again becoming an organizing political principle in the… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
I have no patience or time for people who wear their insecurities on their sleeves like badges of honour. — Simi Ngr Copy Share Image
Profit doesn't appear as the goal but as a side effect of pursuing motivating principles. — Ted Malloch Copy Share Image
The market system is the basis of our civilization. Its only alternative is the Führer principle. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Legislation to apply the principle of equal pay for equal work without discrimination because of sex is a matter of simple justice — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe in the principle that I can make a difference in this world. It may be ever so small, but it… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
A nation's greatness is measured not just by its gross national product or military power, but by the strength of its devotion… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The best advice is not to write what you know, it’s to write what you like. Write the kind of story you… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
The idea of God is the type and foundation of the principle of authority and absolutism, which it is our task to… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
It is a principle of the art of war that one should simply lay down his life and strike. If one's opponent… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
Evolutionism, as taught by Darwinism, has nothing - nothing - to say about how life originated. Has nothing to say about how… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
The highest truth is daiji, translated as dai jiki in Chinese scriptures. This is the subject of the question the emperor asked… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
It is not the principled partisan, however obnoxious he may seem to his opponents, who degrades our public debate, but the preening,… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
And conservatives know that if you reject these principles of limited government and urge others to reject them you can be my… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
Let us not be unmindful that liberty is power, that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
This absence of similarity among military questions naturally brings out the inability of memory to solve them; also the sterility of invariable… — Ferdinand Foch Copy Share Image
Imprint deep upon your minds the principles of piety towards God, and a reverence and fear of His holy name. The fear… — William Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We applied a very simple principle: Recognize the facts. Abortion is old as the world. Gay marriage, please - it's older than… — Jose Mujica Copy Share Image
The particular aspect of history which both attracts and benefits its readers is the examination of causes and the capacity, which is… — Polybius Copy Share Image
It is contrary to the principles of reason and justice that any should be compelled to contribute to the maintenance of a… — George Mason Copy Share Image
And I take this opportunity to declare, that... I will to my dying day oppose with all the powers and faculties God… — James Otis Copy Share Image
Baker has done it again! Building on the core principles that he advanced in Professional's Guide to Value Pricing and The Firm… — Thomas Finneran Copy Share Image
“You reproduce your life only when you work in the area of your calling” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
In keeping people straight, principle is not as powerful as a policeman. — Abel Hermant Copy Share Image
Bion insisted on the principle that "The property of friends is common." — Bion of Borysthenes Copy Share Image
