Principles Quotes · Page 103

I worry that humanity has been "advanced" to its present level of incompetency because evolution works on the Peter Principle.

— Jane Wagner

Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.

— Abraham Lincoln

It's about the principles, it's about the rule of law. You don't have to stay silent when you see something that you…

— George T. Conway III

Looking to future generations, there is no cause to fear that the social instincts will grow weaker... the social instincts, - the…

— Charles Darwin

A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self." [ The New…

— Cyril Connolly

“Why should I give up revenge? On behalf of what? Moral principles? And what of the higher order of things, in which…

— Andrzej Sapkowski

Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life and that…

— Albert Schweitzer

The laws are, and ought to be, relative to the constitution, and not the constitution to the laws. A constitution is the…

— Aristotle

I do not mean to impugn the social justice and social expediency of the redistribution of incomes aimed at by N.I.R.A. and…

— John Maynard Keynes

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

— Jane Austen

If there's a simple, easy design principle that binds everything together, it's probably about starting with the people.

— Bill Moggridge

There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the…

— James Madison

This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts…

— William S. Burroughs

Lincoln is quoted more often than he's understood, and he understood that the founding principle of our nation is, in fact, the…

— Daniel Fried

But, Polly, a principle that can't bear being laughed at, frowned on, and cold-shouldered, isn't worthy of the name.

— Louisa May Alcott

“It is futile to do with more what can be done with fewer.”

— William of Ockham

“Celebrate people irrespective of their status or position”

— Sunday Adelaja

For this knowledge of right living, we have sought a new name... . As theology is the science of religious life, and…

— Ellen Swallow Richards

Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Our Supreme Court has lifted the practice of buying legislation to the level of a constitutional principle by repeatedly protecting corporate spending…

— Thomas Pogge

Tolerance means to fix our mind, to fix our words, & our actions on a higher principle.

— Radhanath Swami

“Who then was the orthodox, who the freethinker? Where lay the true position, the true state of man? Should he descend into…

— Thomas Mann

A free society is regarded as one that does not engage, on principle, in attempting to control what people find meaningful, and…

— Michael Polanyi

When I left my home within society to live amongst the Grizzly's I went there so that I could sacrifice myself to…

— Timothy Treadwell

This is the first nation that organized government on the basis of universal liberty with a free Church and a free State.…

— Oscar Straus

We acquire a testimony of the principles of the gospel by obediently trying to live them.

— James E. Faust

Philosophy alone can boast (and perhaps it is no more than the boast of philosophy), that her gentle hand is able to…

— Edward Gibbon

One of the greatest of all principles is that men can do what they think they can do.

— Norman Vincent Peale

Why is discipline important? Discipline teaches us to operate by principle rather than desire. Saying no to our impulses (even the ones…

— Anonymous

We must convince and empower people to adopt the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity as their guiding principle.

— Klaus Topfer

If tolerance is taken to the point where it tolerates the destruction of those same principles that made tolerance possible in the…

— Gaetano Mosca

But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated…

— Sallust

Never stand so high upon a principle that you cannot lower it to suit the circumstances.

— Winston Churchill

“When we relate with people, we indirectly relate with God”

— Sunday Adelaja

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

— Daniel Webster

And so we shall have to do more than register and more than vote; we shall have to create leaders who embody…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Great organisations choose principles over people. When you give up on the principles, sooner or later you will break down.

— Ettore Messina

The relation of the soul to the body is like that of a house to its bricks. The soul is a principle…

— Roger Scruton

The principles that made this nation a great and powerful leader of the world, have not lost their meaning. They never will.…

— Mitt Romney