Principle Quotes · Page 9

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

— Israelmore Ayivor

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

— Andrew Fastow

Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“We adhere to the principle 'what they don't know won't hurt them.”

— Lia Habel

“First Principle: Have a point and make it by means of the best word.”

— Jacques Barzun

Force cannot transmit a moral principle: moral ideas can be received only through the reason of the heart.

— Edwin Markham

“Like the principles of bookkeeping, keep on booking the principles of life. Happy learning.”

— Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma

Jeremy Corbyn and his supporters do not have a monopoly on principle.

— Liz Kendall

A moral principle is not a command to act or to forbear acting in a given way: it is a tool for…

— John Dewey

The history of the Republican Party is marked by vacillation between its founding principle of opportunity and its domination by the wealthy…

— Heather Cox Richardson

The principle of martial arts is not a thing that can be learned, like a science, by fact-finding and instruction in facts.…

— Bruce Lee

“Are we truly acting from principle and not from interest? Surely it is at least convenient that for us the two coincide.”

— John Colville

“It's like that quote: 'If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have…

— Zadie Smith

“The principle of neighborhood at home always implies the principle of charity abroad. (pg. 260, The Idea of a Local Economy)”

— Wendell Berry

A state of war or anarchy, in which law has little force, is so far valuable, that it puts every man on…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The whole art of making experiments in chemistry is founded on the principle: we must always suppose an exact equality or equation…

— Antoine Lavoisier

A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system,…

— Noam Chomsky

I'm still trying to figure out how to write about cancer and my family's experience with it. If I had been able…

— Junot Diaz

No man will treat with indifference the principle of race. It is the key to history, and why history is often so…

— Benjamin Disraeli

Our search for such [moral] principles can start with . . . the unconditional imperative to acknowledge every person as a person.…

— Paul Tillich

“I believe there is no one principle which predominates in human nature so much in every stage of life, from the cradle…

— David McCullough

“They teach us that in school, matters of principle. I swear it's a plot to get us all slaughtered the day they…

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

Over the years, I had something in principle against autobiographical writing altogether because memory plays tricks on us, and we also tend…

— Gunter Grass

I guess if you got elected on a bumper sticker slogan you didn't really mean, it makes perfect sense to try to…

— Nancy Mace

Principle is OK up to a certain point, but principle doesn't do any good if you lose.

— Dick Cheney

The health of our waters is the principle measure of how we live on the land.

— Luna Leopold

Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party.

— Mao Zedong

We are not making this demand for the sake of a principle, but in the interests of the proletarian class.

— Clara Zetkin

Don't let the cat out or the concierge in: this is the first principle of socialist ladies.

— Muriel Barbery

Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away.

— Benjamin Carson

It is a principle of law, that a person intends to do that which is the natural effect of what he does.

— Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough

There is a group dynamic and a team behaves in principle like a team of horses: there are always leaders.

— Julian Nagelsmann

You can't receive more than you gave, it's a principle of nature, there is nothing we can do to change it.

— Markson Bero

My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are cheap; you make them because they're right.

— Theodore Hesburgh

Executive privilege is nowhere to be found in the Constitution, and thus is a very limited principle.

— Joe Sestak

We need to accept the principle that sometimes poor people will die just because they are poor.

— Tyler Cowen

One of the cardinal principles of Buddhism, the principle of neglect.

— Paul Theroux

The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form.

— Jefferson Davis

I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.

— Elie Wiesel

Letting bygones be bygones is a basic principle in economics.

— Joseph Stiglitz