Principles Quotes · Page 82

I didn't approve of murder on general principles. Not even of people who seemed to go around begging for it.

— Josh Lanyon

Everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger.

— Plato

Whatever type of football you want to play, if you don't have certain principles you're lost.

— Gianfranco Zola

An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Language is the leading principle which unites or separates the tribes of mankind.

— Edward Gibbon

I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse and in a republican government more than in any…

— James Madison

Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes.

— Seneca the Younger

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

— Klaus Topfer

The traditional Jeffersonian principle of religious freedom was so broadly democratic that it included the right to have no religion at all…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Social Security is inherently unsound for the simple reason that it's a political program run by politicians for political purposes...Social Security operates…

— Harry Browne

I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential…

— Fannie Farmer

Glory is not a conceit. It is not a decoration for valor. Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something…

— John McCain

I want to congratulate Senator [Bernie] Sanders for the extraordinary campaign… He has spent his long career in public service, fighting for…

— Hillary Clinton

We need a consistent conservative, someone who has stood for free market principles, who has stood for the Constitution and, critically, who…

— Ted Cruz

I was raised with moral principles that would not be shaken in hard times. And mentorship is huge - it's really important…

— Ser'Darius Blain

One thing I certainly never was made for, and that is to put principles on and off at the dictation of a…

— Horace Mann

We must begin by acknowledging that there is a complete absence of two things in Indian Society. One of these is equality.…

— B. R. Ambedkar

When our intellect has shaken off its many opinions about created things, then the inner principle of truth appears clearly to it,…

— Maximus the Confessor

Let it simply be asked where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts…

— George Washington

I think that we shall have to get accustomed to the idea that we must not look upon science as a 'body…

— Karl Popper

The claim is also sometimes made that science is as arbitrary or irrational as all other claims to knowledge, or that reason…

— Carl Sagan

[T]he democratic principle of "one man, one vote," viewed against a background of voting masses numbering several millions, only serves to demonstrate…

— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

Tracing the progress of mankind in the ascending path of civilization, and moral and intellectual culture, our fathers found that the divine…

— William M. Evarts

My brother, this "religiosity" is not the standard by which true men of God are measured. In all the rituals that Islam…

— Louis Farrakhan

We do have differents principles in life, you have yours and I will respect it, I have mine and it needs to…

— Ying

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

— Horace Greeley

The principle was, death should not be entered like some snug harbor. It should be an unambiguous refusal to surrender.

— Thomas Keneally

There are no styles of karate-do, just varying interpretations of its principles.

— Kenwa Mabuni

'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The devaluation of words and promises regarding free enterprise is, in principle, worse than the devaluation of the rouble

— Dmitry Medvedev

Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the…

— Patricia Ireland

The important thing is that the principles that Senator Obama outlined originally are now embraced and taxpayers will be protected.

— David B. Axelrod

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

— Samuel Johnson

Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.

— Benoit Mandelbrot

“Even in the privacy of our own thoughts, we can’t sow lies and reap truth.”

— Katina Ferguson

Hate begets hate, violence engenders violence, hypocrisy is answered by hypocrisy, war generates war, and love creates love.

— Pitirim Sorokin

...it's easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold to them 98% of the time.

— Clayton Christensen

We want spiritual principles to be more than beautiful abstractions; we want them to actually transform our lives.

— Marianne Williamson

The major studios don't differ very much from one another as they all operate under essentially the same principles and pressure.

— Douglas Wood

If you're familiar with a principle you don't have to be familiar with all of its applications.

— Henry David Thoreau