Principles Quotes

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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
For black politicians, civil rights organizations and white liberals to support the racist practices of the University of Michigan amounts to no less than a… — Walter E. Williams
... the basic principles of the military services are unchangeable. Courage and candor, obedience and comradeship, love of fatherland and loyalty to the State: these… — Erich Raeder
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
The safety of a republic depends essentially on the energy of a common national sentiment; on a uniformity of principles and habits; on the exemption… — Alexander Hamilton
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
You may be good, but what are you good for? You've got to be good for something. You've got to be about some project, some… — Stephen Covey
To me, the essence of keeping the soul nourished is obedience to one's conscience. I don't think that the soul can be nourished unless people… — Stephen Covey
They used Akbar's principles to formulate a version of Islam that could peacefully co-exist with other religions (or so they claimed). An Emperor's Bequest to… — Manil Suri
We must imbue our children with principles of the higher-self, principles which see all people as true equals, and above all, which are sensitive to… — Bryant H. McGill
I am dubious as to how far we can move toward global community-which is the only way to achieve international peace-until we learn the basic… — M. Scott Peck
BASICS OF DIET AND HEALTH The basic principles of good diets are so simple that I can summarize them in just ten words: eat less,… — Marion Nestle
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
I bought some books in order to learn the first principles of philosophy. — Johann Heinrich Lambert
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

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