Principles Quotes · Page 63

Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.

— Lord Acton

Those who assume hypotheses as first principles of their speculations…may indeed form an ingenious romance, but a romance it will still be.

— Roger Cotes

Progressivism, liberalism, or whatever you want to call it has become an ideology of power. So long as liberals hold it, principles…

— Jonah Goldberg

This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty,…

— Thomas Jefferson

The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scripture ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws.

— Noah Webster

[I]n principle and in practice, in a right track and in a wrong one, the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.

— Jeremy Bentham

“When in doubt, do what they do in books, was one of Gabriel's secret mottos and - that rarest of things -…

— Jean-Christophe Valtat

In America, we've got to get back to these base principles of what democracy is.

— Irvine Welsh

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

— Edward Gibbon

I wondered over again for the hundredth time what could be the principle which, in the wildest, most lawless, fantastically chaotic, apparently…

— George MacDonald

Architecture is the frame of human existence. We must dedicate this existence more to beauty. For if poetic principle has deserted us,…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

I want to lead the Progressive Conservative Party, a party that will promote true conservative values and principles. I can tell you…

— Peter MacKay

We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than…

— Marianne Williamson

He was an artist when he saw society: it never crossed his mind that society had to be like this; had any…

— Martin Amis

What the Tea Parties are standing for is constitutional principle. It's not fundamentally about tax rates or whether to have a consumption…

— Robert P. George

The language of theism which was familiar to the people, gave Gandhi the advantage of easy communication with the people, but it…

— Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

Let us have the courage to defy the consensus, the courage to stand for principle. Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of…

— Thomas S. Monson

In contemporary society secular humanism has been singled out by critics and proponents alike as a position sharply distinguishable from any religious…

— Paul Kurtz

Vanity, or to call it by a gentler name, the desire of admiration and applause, is, perhaps, the most universal principle of…

— Lord Chesterfield

If the title of a great man ought to be reserved for him who cannot be charged with an indiscretion or a…

— Jared Sparks

A great character, founded on the living rock of principle is, in fact, not a solitary phenomenon, to be at once perceived,…

— Edward Everett

A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance, this new version is the past and no different…

— George Orwell

Surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected associations, in the omnipotence of dreams,…

— Andre Breton

In the theory of psycho-analysis we have no hesitation in assuming that the course taken by mental events is automatically regulated by…

— Sigmund Freud

Life is a process, not a principle, a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.

— Gerard Straub

Sometimes when you stare adversity in the face you've got to go back to those basic principles of football and do them…

— Fabian Delph

An important re-engineering principle is that companies should focus on their core competence and outsource everything else.

— Bill Gates

The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap

— Aaron Allston

“You cannot fulfill your mandate without fulfilling your purpose and calling in life”

— Sunday Adelaja

Principles focusing on equality and fairness, those are principles that we can't let go of.

— Niki Ashton

When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of…

— Charles Evans Hughes

“Life becomes pleasurable when you are moving in the direction of your calling”

— Sunday Adelaja

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

— Muriel Barbery

For [Karl] Marx it is socialist society which realizes "concretely" the religious principles of equality, brotherly love, and freedom.

— Erich Fromm

“Think what you wish, but always ask yourself if you’re basing your principles on real facts,”

— Joseph Befumo

The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted.

— Edmund Burke

“Anything which is morally wrong cannot be religiously, socially or politically right.”

— Amit Kalantri

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

— Mao Zedong

Voters never have to question where I stand - my principles or priorities. I am a pro-freedom, pro-America and pro-life conservative.

— Tim Walberg

I have added these principles to the law: get the Knights into action before both Bishops are developed

— Emanuel Lasker