Principles Quotes · Page 61

For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all;…

— Aristotle

We can call this "the progress principle": Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them. Shakespeare captured it…

— Jonathan Haidt

[The Jews] tried to kill the principles of all religions with the same mentality in which they betrayed Jesus Christ and the…

— Bashar al-Assad

Our contention is not for mere toleration, but for absolute liberty. There is a wide difference between toleration and liberty. Toleration implies…

— George W Truett

There is nothing in the way of amelioration of the conditions of life, of politics, of social and ethical matters, that may…

— George Arthur French

If we are to include the outer and the inner struggle in a conception more definite than that of conflict in general,…

— A. C. Bradley

In every well-written play the battle rages between the primary powers of Good and Evil, and it is this battle which constitutes…

— Michael Chekhov

By arguing that the bundle theory does not entail and is not committed in any way to the principle of identity of…

— Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

If you just fight against everything willy-nilly, then the message is you're just gonna obstruct on anything. I would rather fight very,…

— Tim Kaine

As long as we accept the principle that religious faith must be respected simply because it is religious faith, it is hard…

— Richard Dawkins

“It is our responsibility as believers to bring the will of God to the people”

— Sunday Adelaja

Religion finds the love of happiness and the principles of duty separated in us; and its mission...its masterpiece is, to reunite them.

— Alexandre Vinet

Law grows, and though the principles of law remain unchanged, yet (and it is one of the advantages of the common law)…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In his sophomore year Wilbanks tried out for the high school basketball team and made it. On the first day of practice…

— Lynn G. Robbins

Don't ever quit. Never quit. Never show anybody you're hurt. Grin and walk through the cannon smoke. It will drive them up…

— James Lee Burke

For truly in nature there are many operations that are far more than mechanical. Nature is not simply an organic body like…

— Anne Conway, Viscountess Conway

Socialism is not spontaneous. It does not arise of itself. It has abiding principles according to which the major means of production…

— Kwame Nkrumah

Politics is about winning. If you don't win, you don't get to put your principles into practice. Therefore, find a way to…

— David Horowitz

Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which…

— Edmund Burke

My Prime Minister regards the economy as our highest priority and forgets that economics and ecology are derived from the same Greek…

— David Suzuki

A theocracy is a government ruled directly by God, and for us it means "Theocracy within". In other words, trying to live…

— Matt Smith

Language is one of the fundamental principles of human understanding. It is the way we interact with each other and how we…

— Linus Torvalds

One of the first principles of perseverance is to know when to stop persevering.

— Carolyn Wells

I am not a "Christian author." I am an author who is a Christian. While my books reflect my faith, they are…

— Andy Andrews

What need had the businessman to scribble or philosophize when he dominated the imagination of his time and the frantic materialism that…

— Alfred Kazin