Principles Quotes · Page 54

“She's against it on principle, and life isn't run on principles but by adjustments”

— Margaret Atwood

In Lebanon, there was an agreement not to liquidate Yasser Arafat. In principle, I'm sorry that we didn't liquidate him.

— Ariel Sharon

A child... never takes time off as a child; time off does not begin until the principles of order have been accepted.

— Heinrich Böll

In principle, skeptics are neither closed-minded nor cynical. We are curious but cautious.

— Michael Shermer

Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice ... You expect too much of human…

— Susan B. Anthony

“To live an effective life, you must understand the essence and secret of life”

— Sunday Adelaja

Hitler understood the demagogues' essential principle to teach or persuade is far more difficult than to stir emotion.

— Tim Wu

Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.

— Stephen Covey

There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the commission under…

— Alexander Hamilton

Rationality is not just something you do so that you can make more money, it is a binding principle. Rationality is a…

— Charlie Munger

The Republicans have lost their standards; they've lost their principles... Really, that's why the machine in the Republican Party is fighting against…

— Sharron Angle

Not only can color, which is under fixed laws, be taught like music, but it is easier to learn than drawing, whose…

— Eugene Delacroix

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

It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles…

— Ludwig von Mises

Every part of our program of perestroika - and the program as a whole, for that matter - is fully based on…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about.…

— Barbara Jordan

What made traditional economies so radically different and so very fundamentally dangerous to Western economies were the traditional principles of prosperity of…

— Rebecca Adamson

Are we going to take the hands of the federal government completely off any effort to adjust the growing of national crops,…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Rare are the principles that drive us to stand even when we realize that we will likely perish in the standing. And…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

The industrial economy which divides society absolutely into two portions, the payers of wages and the receivers of them, the first counted…

— John Stuart Mill

A person whose skin is metallic can no more have its reproduction restricted than a black-skinned person. Regarding life as a form…

— Anonymous

In the first section of the Doctrine and Covenants we read that 'the Lord shall come to recompense unto every man according…

— Mark E. Petersen

Till now, society has protected the adult and blamed the victim. It has been abetted in its blindness by theories, still in…

— Alice Miller

In my [Impossibility] theorem I'm assuming that the information is a ranking. Each voter can say of any two candidates, I prefer…

— Kenneth Arrow

Divide and Conquer. As long as some people have commanded the work of others, this has been management's basic principle.

— Peter Rachleff

“success in any endeavor is always derived from acting in harmony with the principles to which the success is tied.”

— Stephen R. Covey

May those principles, which were so honorably and nobly defended, namely, the Constitution of our land, by our fathers, be established forever.

— Joseph Smith, Jr

The acceptance of vertical differentiation with the built-in principle of self-determination must apply on as many levels as possible.

— P. W. Botha

The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition.

— Albert Einstein

Our country is great because it is built on principles of self-reliance, opportunity, innovation, and compassion for others.

— Ronald Reagan

I want to live out principles that became a part of my life in my 40s, 50s, and 60s. One principle is…

— George W. Bush

Miss Mills replied, on general principles, that the Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where…

— Charles Dickens

Well, sir, you never can tell. That's a principle in life with me, sir, if you'll excuse my having such a thing.

— George Bernard Shaw

I believe very firmly in the principle of free agency - people making their own decisions and doing what they think is…

— Mitt Romney

Principles have a way of enduring, as do the few irreducible individuals who maintain allegiance to them.

— Christopher Hitchens

Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your…

— Marilyn vos Savant

One of the most important principles of success is developing the habit of going the extra mile.

— Napoleon Hill

We need to shift from an economic to a humanitarian organizing principle for human civilization. And women, en masse, should be saying…

— Marianne Williamson

Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.

— Benjamin Franklin

How about this?" I said, because now it was the principle of the thing. "I'm sorry, jackass.

— Rosemary Clement-Moore