Principles Quotes

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If principles can become dated, they're not principles. — Warren Buffett
And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other… — Morris West
If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe that destruction is so useful… — Marquis de Sade
You can't feel the need to be liked in public life, because if you do you will compromise the principles that are so important to… — Graeme Samuel
Country people do not behave as if they think life is short; they live on the principle that it is long, and savor variations of… — Edward Hoagland
The concept of national sovereignty has been an immutable, indeed sacred, principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and… — Maurice Strong
The United States, which would live on Christian principles with all of the peoples of the world, cannot omit a fair deal for its own… — Harry S. Truman
Let us rededicate ourselves to the principle that all Americans have the tools to make the most of their God-given potential. For Indian tribes and… — William J. Clinton
This fight has nothing to do with soldierly gallantry or principles of the Geneva Convention. If the fight against the partisans is not waged with… — Wilhelm Keitel
Solidarity is based on the principle that we are willing to put ourselves at risk to protect each other. — Starhawk
Now I will avow, that I then believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence… — Thomas Jefferson
So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that which… — Aristotle
...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in moral… — Aristotle
If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the nature of the… — Peter Singer
Those two principles: We're supposed to love one another and we're supposed to work together to make the experience better. That's all the religion you… — Mario Cuomo
Let us not forget that violence does not live alone and is not capable of living alone: it is necessarily interwoven with falsehood. Between them… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Those who keep the masses of men in subjection by exercising force and cruelty deprive them at once of two vital foods, liberty and obedience;… — Simone Weil
The first principle of ethical power is Purpose. By purpose, I don't mean your objective or intention-something toward which you are always striving. Purpose is… — Stephen Covey
My own view, which does not rely solely on religious faith or even on an original idea, but rather on ordinary common sense, is that… — Dalai Lama
The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and cooperation. It will… — Adolf Hitler

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