Principles Quotes

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The United States is not a nation based upon race, creed, or religion - we are a nation based upon our loyalty and allegiance to… — Jim Ryun
All universal moral principles are idle fancies. — Marquis de Sade
All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires… — Laura Schlessinger
When we began Starbucks, what I wanted to try to do was to create a set of values, guiding principles, and culture. — Howard Schultz
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality. — Albert Schweitzer
High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come… — Robert H. Schuller
Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march. — Howard Schultz
An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because… — E F Schumacher
To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue. — Walter Scott
Dr. King's general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era. — Al Sharpton
An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army. — William Tecumseh Sherman
In principle, skeptics are neither closed-minded nor cynical. We are curious but cautious. — Michael Shermer
At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't mean that you… — Peter Singer
Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in… — Red Skelton
The fundamental flaw in Social Security and Medicare is that they violate the 'welfare principle' in economics. The welfare principle forms the fundamental basis of… — Mark Skousen
Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The people currently in charge have forgotten the first principle of an open society, namely that we may be wrong and that there has to… — George Soros
The Occupy movement needs an organizing principle, and - just as the Tea Party did - it needs some actual measures of success. Choose one… — Eliot Spitzer

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