Principles Quotes

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The will of God is not something you add to your life. Itâ€™s a course you choose. You either line yourself up with the Son… — Elisabeth Elliot
Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say.Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is… — J. Michael Straczynski
How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render… — Adam Smith
There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And an outstanding reason for choosing… — David Foster Wallace
The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalize false… — Dorothy L. Sayers
I didn't approve of murder on general principles. Not even of people who seemed to go around begging for it. — Josh Lanyon
What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists me--that is what… — Albert Camus
It has been said that terror is the principle of despotic government. Does your government therefore resemble despotism? Yes, as the sword that gleams in… — Maximilien Robespierre
Propensities and principles must be reconciled by some means. — Charlotte Bronte
The principles of gain through loss, of joy through sorrow, of getting by giving, of fulfillment by laying down, of life out of death is… — Elisabeth Elliot
These prinÂciples laid down as in variable rules: that one must pay a card sharper, but need not pay a tailor; that one must never… — Leo Tolstoy
As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything. — George Carlin
Had you but seen it, I promise you, your high-minded principles would have melted like candle wax. Never would you have wished such beauty away. — Jennifer Donnelly
Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances… — George Packer
But, Polly, a principle that can't bear being laughed at, frowned on, and cold-shouldered, isn't worthy of the name. — Louisa May Alcott
Marquise de Merteuil: I've distilled every thing to one single principle: win or die. — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
I understand why we do that now. Itâ€™s a help, not a threat. Itâ€™s something to remind you how important words are. Ideas are important.… — Tom Clancy
I have no idea what that is, but yawn, anyway, just on principle. Eat up. Pancakes is brain food. Apparently not grammar food. Wow.You college… — Rachel Caine
You're the sort of person who, on principle, no longer expects anything of anything. There are plenty, younger than you or less young, who live… — Italo Calvino
The fourfold root of the principle of sufficent reason is "Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions… — Arthur Schopenhauer

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