Principles Quotes · Page 92

Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.

— Woodrow Wilson

Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.

— Chris Cleave

High ethics and religious principles form the basis for success and happiness in every area of life.

— John Templeton

[Barack] Obama has little, if any, principles except to aggrandize and make himself more and more important.

— Nat Hentoff

“The principles of Twelve Step recovery are the opposite of our character defects.”

— Anonymous

If I can help create an environment where the principles that I believe in can be implemented - to me, that's fulfilling.

— Jeb Bush

The question I should have asked is not what is the rule, but what is the principle.

— Andrew Fastow

It is never difficult to see images – when the principle of the image is embedded in the soul.

— Marsden Hartley

How sad that men would base an entire civilization on the principle of paternity, upon the legal owership and presumed responsibility for…

— Phyllis Chesler

As in an icicle the agnostic abides alone. The vital principle is taken out of all endeavor for improving himself or bettering…

— Anna Julia Cooper

Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the…

— Laozi

We've organized ourselves as cultures, to a large degree, around what we agree we know. And when you have multiple ways of…

— David Weinberger

To speak, therefore, of an electric current in the nerves, is to use quite as symbolic an expression as if we compared…

— Anonymous

I would not give my rotating field discovery for a thousand inventions, however valuable... A thousand years hence, the telephone and the…

— Nikola Tesla

And as to you, Sir, treacherous in private friendship and a hypocrite in public life, the world will be puzzled to decide…

— Thomas Paine

It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of…

— Michael Behe

I am not a 'democrat' only because 'humility' and equality are spiritual principles corrupted by the attempt to mechanize and formalize them,…

— Anonymous

We live in a world full of accidents finally in which on aesthetic principles have a consistency of which we can be…

— Anne Rice

Finally, let us not forget the religious character of our origin. Our fathers were brought hither by their high veneration for the…

— Daniel Webster

First of all, in principle, I'm against physician-assisted suicide, and secondly, I believe it is the prerogative of the federal government to…

— George W. Bush

I do not know what will happen in China politically. I do know that it is impossible to maintain the communist system…

— Henry A. Kissinger

What will solve our problems is a specific set of ideas built on bedrock principles that made America the greatest nation to…

— Marco Rubio

A further aspect I should like to discuss is what I call the practice of infinite escape clauses. I believe we developed…

— Sidney W. Fox

The Post-Dispatch will serve no party but the people; be no organ of Republicanism, but the organ of truth; will follow no…

— Joseph Pulitzer

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

— Israelmore Ayivor

I loved the audacity of that American principle which says. When life gets tainted or goes stale, junk it! Leave it behind!…

— Jonathan Raban

[...] to introduce into the philosophy of war itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity

— Carl von Clausewitz

The simplest kind of decision is binary: that is, the question can be answered, in principle at least, by either yes or…

— E. J. W. Barber

We can not imitate great souls. However to study, analyse and imbibe the principles they teach and embody, is the path of…

— Radhanath Swami

A free, virtuous, and enlightened people must know full well the great principles and causes upon which their happiness depends.

— James Monroe

We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.

— Robert Byrd

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

— Paul David Tripp

Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if…

— Fulton J. Sheen

Ads push the principle of noise all the way to the plateau of persuasion. They are quite in accord with the procedures…

— Marshall McLuhan

For too long, our immigration system has failed to live up to the ideals and principles our nation was founded on.

— Alex Padilla

My homes are similar in style because the same design principles run through all areas of my work.

— John Rocha

“To be principled means to consistently operate with principles that can be clearly explained.”

— Ray Dalio

“It is this spirit of godliness that will bring forth the attributes, the principles and the life style of godliness.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.

— Lord Acton