Principle Quotes

1947 Principle quotes by 1268 unique authors

What is God? God is the great life that fills the universe; it is the principle of life aswell. — Masahisa Goi
My philosophy is based on the principle of self-ownership. You own your life. To deny this is to imply that another person has a higher… — Ken Schoolland
Therefore if we realize that our nature and destiny are what they should be, we will have no anxiety and will be at ease with… — Guo Xiang
One principle problem of educating software engineers is that they will not use a new method until they believe it works and, more importantly, that… — Watts Humphrey
A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless… — Yann Martel
American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than… — Camille Paglia
The principle of majority does not work when differences on fundamentals are involved. — Mahatma Gandhi
I believe in the separation of church and state and would not use my authority to violate this principle in any way. — Jimmy Carter
This is America, and our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakeable. The principle that people of all faiths are welcome in this country, and… — Barack Obama
Of course I believe in free enterprise but in my system of free enterprise, the democratic principle is that there never was, never has been,… — Harry S. Truman
The principle of the Inquisition was murderous. . . . The popes were not only murderers in the great style, but they also made murder… — Lord Acton
The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are… — Phillip E. Johnson
But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed. — Albert Einstein
It is the law of our humanity that man must know good through evil. No great principle ever triumphed but through much evil. No man… — Frederick William Robertson
Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle. — George Washington
It is not the principled partisan, however obnoxious he may seem to his opponents, who degrades our public debate, but the preening, self-styled statesman who… — Tom DeLay
No man is fit to be a Senator...unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle. — Henry F. Ashurst
It is difficult to attack me directly on religion because I never speak of it. Formally I am a strict observer of decorum and in… — Etienne Francois, duc de Choiseul
There is always some basic principle that will ultimately get the Republican party together. If my observations are worth anything, that basic principle is the… — Unknown Author
Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of… — Wendell Phillips
For those of you who don't understand Reaganomics, it's based on the principle that the rich and the poor will get the same amount of… — Mo Udall
Man must begin to the unitary principle of man - knowing that there are not separate men or separate individuals, but hat the whole man… — Walter Russell
Separation from evil is the necessary first principle of communion with Him ... Separation from evil is His principle of unity — John Nelson Darby
Without the Utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked. It was Utopians who traced the lines of the first… — Anatole France
If our fathers, in 1776, had acknowledged the principle that a majority had the right to rule the minority, we should never have become a… — Lysander Spooner

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