Principle Quotes

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Everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger. — Plato
I am for a government rigorously frugal & simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of the national debt;… — Thomas Jefferson
There is the work of great men and there is the work of little men. Therefore it is said, 'Some labor with their minds and… — Mencius
I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation. — Max Lerner
Fasting is the first principle of medicine; fast and see the strength of the spirit reveal itself. — Unknown Author
I've distilled everything to one simple principle: win or die! — Glenn Close
The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not… — Lincoln Steffens
To abandon the principle of simplicity would be to abandon all reasoning about the external world — Jim Holt
Religion operates on the principle 'I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.' But the operating principle of the gospel is 'I am accepted by God… — Timothy Keller
Non-cooperation in military matters should be an essential moral principle for all true scientists ... — Albert Einstein
Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest. — Abraham Lincoln
I believe each individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruit of his labor, so far as it in… — Abraham Lincoln
I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest. — James Russell Lowell
The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last… — Samuel Johnson
I am skeptical in principle, gullible in practice. — Mason Cooley
All men are capable of reason. That is the fundamental principle of democracy Because everybody's mind is capable of true knowledge, you don't have to… — Joseph Campbell
It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its color and odor, as seek… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
It is a principle of our nature that feelings once excited turn readily from the object by which they are excited to some other object… — Matthew Simpson
Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy. — Felix Frankfurter
For me chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialities which enveloped my life to come in black volutes torn by fiery flashes, like those… — Primo Levi
I worry that humanity has been "advanced" to its present level of incompetency because evolution works on the Peter Principle. — Jane Wagner
One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction. — Karel Capek
We have lost faith in the formal powers of the mind, not, as some suppose, because our universe is too difficult to grasp, but because… — Lewis Mumford
To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force.… — Ursula K. Le Guin
It is possible to believe in progress as a fact without believing in progress as an ethical principle; but in the catechism of many Americans,… — Norbert Wiener

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