Principles Quotes

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Principles are like sheaths. It doesn't have the sharp edge to cut something, but it can cover that sharp edge. So that no one gets… — Choi Woo-seok
Know you that Allah has made Islam the most sublime path for attainment of His supreme pleasure and the highest standards of his worship and… — Ali ibn Abi Talib
I probably have mellowed down a bit. But when it comes to principles, I still have to make a stand. — Gordon Wu
Students deserve our care and concern on the grounds of principle, not personality. — Marshall Gregory
The Church's basic moral principle regarding reproductive technologies is this: if a given technology assists the marital embrace in achieving its natural end, it can… — Christopher West
What is God? God is the great life that fills the universe; it is the principle of life aswell. — Masahisa Goi
My philosophy is based on the principle of self-ownership. You own your life. To deny this is to imply that another person has a higher… — Ken Schoolland
The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles. — Plato
Therefore if we realize that our nature and destiny are what they should be, we will have no anxiety and will be at ease with… — Guo Xiang
One principle problem of educating software engineers is that they will not use a new method until they believe it works and, more importantly, that… — Watts Humphrey
A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless… — Yann Martel
Long intervals frequently elapse between the discovery of new principles in science and their practical application... Those intellectual qualifications, which give birth to new principles… — Charles Babbage
Principles . . . become modified in practice, by facts. — James F. Cooper
American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than… — Camille Paglia
The principle of majority does not work when differences on fundamentals are involved. — Mahatma Gandhi
Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. — Woodrow Wilson
Our two nations both faced great challenges when they were founded, and our two nations have both relied on the same principles to help us… — George W. Bush
I believe in the separation of church and state and would not use my authority to violate this principle in any way. — Jimmy Carter
This is America, and our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakeable. The principle that people of all faiths are welcome in this country, and… — Barack Obama
The fellow has absolutely no principles."Money and gall" is all he has. — Barry Goldwater

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