Principle Quotes

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Strengthening the role the United Nations can play...will require serious examination of the need to extend into the international arena the rule of law and… — Maurice Strong
I am a radical in thought (and principle) and a conservative in method (and conduct). — Rutherford B. Hayes
The Jews are one of the principle forces attempting to lead the U.S. into the war. The Jews greatest danger to this country lies in… — Charles Lindbergh
Hope consists in asserting that there is at the heart of being, beyond all data, beyond all inventories and all calculations, a mysterious principle which… — Gabriel Marcel
I wanted them to be diverse. The whole underlying principle of the X-Men was to try to be an anti-bigotry story to show there's good… — Stan Lee
I am an idealist. I often feel I would like to be an artist in an ivory tower. Yet it is imperative that I speak… — W. Eugene Smith
It is a universal principle that you get more of what you think about, talk about, and feel strongly about. — Jack Canfield
The principle factor in my success has been an absolute desire to draw constantly. I never decided to be an artist. Simply, I couldn't stop… — Winsor McCay
The great principle of Justice: prevent crime rather than punish it. All that is needed to execute a guilty man is a firing squad or… — Augusto Roa Bastos
It is the great glory as well as the great threat of science that everything which is in principle possible can be done if the… — Peter Medawar
For me, the writing life doesn't just happen when I sit at the writing desk. It is a life lived with a centering principle, and… — Julia Alvarez
Humans are addicted to the hope for a final reckoning, but intellectual humility requires that we resist the temptation to assume that tools of the… — Thomas Nagel
And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming… — Benjamin Tucker
The ecological principle of unity in diversity grades into a richly mediated social principle; hence my use of the term social ecology. — Murray Bookchin
Anarchism is no patent solution for all human problems, no Utopia of a perfect social order, as it has often been called, since on principle… — Rudolf Rocker
The principle that the majority have a right to rule the minority, practically resolves all government into a mere contest between two bodies of men,… — Lysander Spooner
The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that… — James Hutton
A basic principle of American justice holds that a bad man has the same rights as a good man. — Massad Ayoob
No man was ever a good soldier but the man who goes into the battle determined to conquer, or not to come back from the… — Daniel O'Connell
The principle of my political life ... is that all amelioration and improvements in political institutions can be obtained by persevering in a perfectly peaceable… — Daniel O'Connell
Treat [the customer] as guests when they come and when they go, whether or not they buy. Give them all that can be given fairly,… — Harry Gordon Selfridge
Your principle should be to see everything and say nothing. The world changes so rapidly that if you want to get on you cannot afford… — Khushwant Singh
The love for work needs to be re-enthroned in our lives. Every family should have a plan for work that touches the life of each… — M. Russell Ballard
I believe you can train yourself to become a positive thinker, but you must cultivate a desire to develop the skill of setting personal worthy… — M. Russell Ballard
In everything, depend upon yourself, but work in harmony with all things. Do not depend even upon the Infinite, but learn to work and live… — Christian D. Larson

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