Principles Quotes · Page 50

I spent an important part of my life participating in conflicts. But for me, conflict was not the main principle.

— Donald Tusk

No one will presumably ever be able to prove or disprove such fundamental religious principles as the existence of God.

— Stephen Kinzer

No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To understand how people organize social systems, we have to discover the principles that we create to make some societies intelligible.

— Noam Chomsky

A great relationship is based on two main principles. First, appreciate your similarities and second, respect your differences.

— Nishan Panwar

The principle of parsimony is valid esthetically in that the artist must not go beyond what is needed for his purpose.

— Rudolf Arnheim

There is a close logical connection between the concept of a safety margin and the principle of diversification.

— Benjamin Graham

[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable…

— Aristotle

I won't lay down my principles for any kind of recognition or any kind of position or trying to be more famous.…

— Ice Cube

In our laws...by the oath which they prescribe, we appeal to the Supreme Being so to deal with us hereafter as we…

— Rufus King

I beg of you always to dwell upon the necessity of a thorough understanding of principles, in order to stop the vivacity…

— Nicolas Malebranche

All my stories and worlds spring from the basic principle of being a slave to the premise, to follow the consequences wherever…

— Karin Tidbeck

What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our own specific answer to that question, we…

— Ben Nelson

It is true that the principle of national citizenship, associated with rights, and the control of a country's borders are two key…

— Kofi Annan

That's all very well as an abstract moral principle, Avril, a coffee-table theoretical construct, but there's no denying the sheer gratuitous pleasure…

— Irvine Welsh

Develop a respect and reverence for the principle of variation: the idea that the message ain't in the mean, the mode or…

— Tom Peters

A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance, this new version is the past and no different…

— George Orwell

Surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected associations, in the omnipotence of dreams,…

— Andre Breton

In the theory of psycho-analysis we have no hesitation in assuming that the course taken by mental events is automatically regulated by…

— Sigmund Freud

Wheeler hopes that we can discover, within the context of physics, a principle that will enable the universe to come into existence…

— Paul Davies

Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist the only…

— H. P. Blavatsky

Art breaks open a dimension inaccessible to other experience, a dimension in which human beings, nature, and things no longer stand under…

— Herbert Marcuse

For as long as I can remember, I have been inspired by the achievement of our founding fathers. They set forth principles…

— Sonia Sotomayor

Of course, in the reality of history, the Machiavellian view which glorifies the principle of violence has been able to dominate.Not the…

— Stefan Zweig

I have principles in my professional and personal life as to how things are done.

— Kevin Pietersen

It's I politics that men are always aggravating the hopeless tangle of their laws, obscuring the simplest principles and making a mockery…

— Joseph Sobran

the boys of the rising generation are to be the men of the next, and the sole guardians of the principles we…

— Thomas Jefferson

Unfair in practice is not the same thing as wrong in principle, but sometimes it has to do.

— Hendrik Hertzberg

If there is a simple, easy principle that binds everything I have done together, it is my interest in people and their…

— Bill Moggridge

Our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics.

— David Korten

The principles of the United States Constitution are, because of Senator Byrd, still the heartbeat of the US Senate.

— David C. Hardesty Jr

Looking back to data, we can see if the consequences are plausible; looking forward to theory, we can see if general principles…

— John Henry Holland

In my opinion, we should search for a completely different flying machine, based on other flying principles.

— Henri Coanda

Faith is a principle which hath its root deeper feeling. We believe, whether we see or not.

— Charles Spurgeon

The establishment of the chaplainship to Congress is a palpable violation of ... constitutional principles.

— James Madison

Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march.

— Howard Schultz

There can be no intelligent control of the lead danger in industry unless it is based on the principle of keeping the…

— Alice Hamilton

A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle.

— Luc de Clapiers

I think when hundreds of thousands of lives are on the line, you might have to set aside some principles.

— Nicholas D. Kristof

The biggest reason that positive endings don't happen is because employees are trained on policies and rules rather than principles.

— Jeffrey Gitomer