Principle Quotes

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Most people in the world believe that if there is a God, you relate to God by being good. Most religions are based on that… — Timothy Keller
Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will be taken over by a Central government — Peter Drucker
Leadership, in short, is power governed by principle, directed toward raising people to their highest levels of personal motive and social morality, — James MacGregor Burns
No matter how much lip service those committed to power (psychopaths) may pay to the principle of equality (empaths), they can never approach their fellow… — Arno Gruen
The task of saving the earth's environment must and will become the central organizing principle of the post-Cold War world. — Al Gore
The foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principle of private morality. — George Washington
Each time we see and are touched by the expression of some eternal principle, we catch a sweet glimpse of some aspect of our True… — Guy Finley
An inequality of property is the root and foundation of innumerable evils; it tends to derision, and to keep asunder the social feelings that should… — Orson Pratt
The legislature, like the executive, has ceased to be even the creature of the people: it is the creature of pressure groups, and most of… — H. L. Mencken
Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations… — Thomas B. Macaulay
Anything can happen in SF. And the fact that nothing ever does happen in SF is only due to the poverty of our imaginations, we… — John Thomas Sladek
What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and the power itself in man. What is bad? All that… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature. — Alexander Hamilton
So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have… — Peter L. Berger
In military science there is a principle more important than "Forward": it is that the task should be proportionate to the means. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
If a community decides that some conduct is prejudicial to itself, and so decides by numbers sufficient to impose its will upon dissenters, I know… — Learned Hand
Don't make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the… — George Bernard Shaw
Structure is not just a means to a solution. It is also a principle and a passion. — Marcel Breuer
Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students. — B.K.S. Iyengar
The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism. — Lajos Kossuth
It is no hard matter to get children; but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and… — Michel de Montaigne
Behavior, n. Conduct, as determined, not by principle, but by breeding. — Ambrose Bierce
I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct, nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given… — Mark Twain
A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive, a jay will… — Mark Twain

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