Principles Quotes · Page 78

The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.

— Walter Lippmann

Separation from evil is the necessary first principle of communion with Him ... Separation from evil is His principle of unity

— John Nelson Darby

The failure-dichotomy principle: failure is good. Failure is not an option. Balance those in your brain.

— Donny Deutsch

We (atheists) act in good conscience because we believe in moral principles, not because we expect a reward in Heaven.

— Margherita Hack

Never let pride be your guiding principle. Let your accomplishments speak for you.

— Morgan Freeman

“The principles of godliness must be ensured to be received by all in the community, city and the nation, even by the…

— Sunday Adelaja

If you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.

— Ray Bradbury

It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.

— Bruce Lee

Conversion is not a repairing of the old building, but it takes all down and erects a new structure. It is not…

— Joseph Alleine

The great difference between the real leader and the pretender is that the one sees into the future, while the other regards…

— Edmund Burke

In principle... no government in the world can accept an armed terrorist group, some of them coming from abroad, controlling streets and…

— Walid Muallem

Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share…

— Winston Churchill

A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than…

— David Remnick

I think it's scary that that our elected officials aren't operating under the principles of human rights, under the principles that this…

— Adam Yauch

[A new all-encompassing national identification system] contradicts some of our most sacrosanct American principles of personal liberty and expectations of privacy and…

— Bill McCollum

The instinct of revenge is the force which constitutes the essence of what we call psychology, history, metaphysics and morality. The spirit…

— Gilles Deleuze

There are certain yoga laws and principles that are, shall we say, less tangible than others. For example, the law of karma.…

— Bryan Kest

Electronic culture created soulless replacements for connective rituals- television supplanted tribal legends told by the fire; 'fast food' consumed in distraction took…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

I discovered John Truby ten years ago when a friend told me about his screenwriting course. I studied Truby's principles for a…

— Caroline Lawrence

It is never to be expected in a revolution that every man is to change his opinion at the same moment. There…

— Thomas Paine

If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions…

— Aristotle

We live in the richest country in the world. There's plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be…

— Carson McCullers

The danger of silent accumulations & encroachments by Ecclesiastical Bodies have not sufficiently engaged attention in the U.S. [...] Besides the danger…

— James Madison

Honesty is a principle, and we have our moral agency to determine how we will apply this principle. We have the agency…

— James E. Faust

If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is, that we should…

— Thomas Jefferson

Principles are like a seed in the ground; they must continually be visited with heavenly influences or else your life will be…

— Thomas Traherne

If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.

— George W. Bush

Secular progressivism, which attempts to remove God from the public square, is not consistent with the principles that established the USA.

— Benjamin Carson

Relationship Principle 6 Men see how you dress, and then make assumptions about your relationship potential.

— Sherry Argov

God is not a respecter of persons but a respecter of principles that are in his word.

— Matthew Ashimolowo

Highfalutin moral principles are impossible guides to foreign policy. At worst, they reflect hypocrisy; at best, extreme naivete.

— Charles Krauthammer

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.

— Aesop

It is said that there is a principle of conflict which originated with the single cell and has never deteriorated.

— Frank Herbert

Russian aggression against Ukraine is an act that tramples on the vision and principles of the U.N. Charter.

— Fumio Kishida

I sort of use as my guiding principle that show The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. Whenever possible, do the stupid…

— Moby

Evolution is an organizing principle and when we call it a theory, we mean it's a theory, we don't mean that it's…

— Alan I. Leshner

Christianity is the only system of faith which combines religious beliefs with corresponding principles of morality. It builds ethics on religion.

— Austin Phelps

It's easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.

— Ray Kroc

Men have laid down the rules and definitions by which the world is run, and one of the objects of their definitions…

— Sally Kempton

Principle #1: Avoid dangerous people and dangerous places. Principle #2: Do not defend your property. Principle #3: Respond immediately and escape.

— Sam Harris