Principle Quotes · Page 15

Subjectivism is not an absolute principle; it is a necessary but not sufficient condition for sound methodology.

— Murray Rothbard

I always work on the principle that if my heart and my head are together on an issue, write it, say it.

— Dennis Skinner

If you're familiar with a principle you don't have to be familiar with all of its applications.

— Henry David Thoreau

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

— Immanuel Kant

The principle was, death should not be entered like some snug harbor. It should be an unambiguous refusal to surrender.

— Thomas Keneally

Everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger.

— Plato

The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding; your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be.

— Raymond Charles Barker

America has always understood this principle of the economy - that everyone can benefit when everyone competes.

— Julia Gillard

There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict…

— George S. Patton

We want to assert the very principle that truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.

— John Howard

Once Rolex & Ordinary Watch get talking. Ordinary Watch says. You show the time as well as I, so whats the big…

— Anonymous

Father taught us that opportunity and responsibility go hand in hand. I think we all act on that principle; on the basic…

— Anonymous

The most basic principle to being a free American is the notion that we as individuals are responsible for our own lives…

— Ron Paul

Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between…

— Rachel Cusk

Personally, speaking as a historian and a storyteller, when it comes to inaccuracy in historical fictioneering, I follow the Shakespeare principle: I'm…

— Rick Perlstein

This may be done by grafting, by confining the roots, withholding water, bending the branches, or in a hundred other ways which…

— Robert Fortune

“Purpose and principle, clearly understood and articulated, and commonly shared, are the genetic code of any healthy organization. To the degree that…

— Alan Hirsch

What America needs is to hold to its ancient and well-charted course. Our country was conceived in the theory of local self-government.…

— Calvin Coolidge

I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you…

— Abraham Lincoln

I had a very long discussion with Justice Gorsuch in my office, and he pointed out to me that he is a…

— Susan Collins

Man must know the principle of Creation: giving between each interchanging opposite half of each cycle for the purpose of repeating its…

— Walter Russell

“Do I raise the dead when I put him behind bars? Then what'll I do it for? We used to shoot a…

— Arthur Miller

On the mathematical side, you could in principle build a society in which people were fulfilling their needs and flourishing as human…

— Tim Jackson

It goes to establish a just and permanent principle of trade which puts an end to all serious fluctuations in prices and…

— Josiah Warren

It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

That principle can be summed up in three simple words. Thoughts Become Things!

— Mike Dooley

“Everything that happens is always simple. And there’s a principle to how things proceed, assuming that they last.”

— Herta Müller

You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity.

— Jane Austen

“I have an uncompromising principle against the use of AI in literature.”

— Abhijit Naskar

To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.

— Jose Bergamin

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

I'm fully supportive in principle for the government to do the maximum to help the people that need help.

— Haim Saban

“Relationship Principle 5 Don't believe what anyone tells you about yourself.”

— Sherry Argov

International development aid is based on the Robin Hood principle: take from the rich and give to the poor.

— Angus Deaton

A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.

— Andrew O'Hagan

“The man of principle never forgets what he is, because of what others are.”

— Bohdi Sanders

If there's a principle really worth sticking up for, I'll go the whole way.

— Kevin Macdonald

Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.

— Anonymous

“The first principle of time is that it must be converted into product.”

— Sunday Adelaja