Principles Quotes

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We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children… — Marianne Williamson
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which… — Frank Lloyd Wright
Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company, willing to try to get a better atmosphere… — E. O. Wilson
Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of quantum uncertainty, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. String theory does so again because a point particle… — Edward Witten
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and… — Tom Wolfe
The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man,… — Frances Wright
The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when… — Frances Wright
'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first… — Frank Lloyd Wright
Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work. — Mao Zedong
The basic principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ are simple, and they are universal. Faith in the Savior is the same in Boston as… — David A. Bednar
So much of the habitat destruction and pollution is based on the simple principle that we somehow have been given free license over other species… — Greg Graffin
I heard somebody open and shut the gate to the barn lot, but I didn't look around. If I didn't look around it would not… — Robert Penn Warren
Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and… — John Dewey
Revolutionary men with principles were not really different from the rest. They used their cleverness to get, in return for principles, what other men buy… — Nawal El Saadawi
His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle. — Jane Austen
What are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?" "Stories. And they give me hope. — Neil Gaiman
Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles. — Ian Fleming
When they first built the University of California at Irvine they just put the buildings in. They did not put any sidewalks, they just planted… — Larry Wall
As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behaviour towards creatures, all men… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization… — Edward Abbey

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