Principle Quotes

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I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti want to see… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle. — Marcus Aurelius
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. — Jane Austen
While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they do not proceed… — Teresa of Avila
A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back… — Sai Baba
That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle… — Charles Babbage
Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established. — Honore de Balzac
The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award. — Javier Bardem
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. — John Quincy Adams
The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is… — Jean Baudrillard
Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating,… — Scott Adams
Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle. — Gary Bauer
On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of… — Cecil Beaton
The principle of subordination is the great bond of union and harmony through the universe. — Catharine Beecher
I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent. — Henry Ward Beecher
To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter, could function on its own;… — Pope Benedict XVI
The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of… — Jeremy Bentham
As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances. A tactic which allows people, as distinct… — John Berger
An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled… — Wendell Berry
Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist, the only difference between a… — Annie Besant

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