Principles Quotes

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Peace is more than a lofty ideal. It is a practical principle that, with conscious effort, can become a normal part of our lives as… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
Bill Walton, UH Volleyball coach, after his player kept looking at him on the bench every time the ball hit the floor...Next time you look… — Theodore Hesburgh
Israel does not respect the principles or purposes of the United Nations charter nor the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, — Evo Morales
Disability is a characteristic like hair color; it's not a defining principle. — Jean Driscoll
The unknown is the governing principle of war. — Ferdinand Foch
Just remember, strength and courage. If you stand on principle, you'll never lose. — Janet Reno
Fathers and mothers, do not forget that children learn more by the eye than they do by the ear... Imitation is a far stronger principle… — J C Ryle
If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions of the soul… — Aristotle
They've seen me make decisions, they've seen me under trying times, they've seen me weep, they've seen me laugh, they've seen me hug. And they… — George W. Bush
Politics comes and goes, but your principles don't. And everybody wants to be loved -- not everybody. ... You never heard anybody say, 'I want… — George W. Bush
Where the principle of difference [between political parties] is as substantial and as strongly pronounced as between the republicans and the monocrats of our country,… — Thomas Jefferson
Whenever vanity and gaiety, a love of pomp and dress, furniture, equipage, buildings, great company, expensive diversions, and elegant entertainments get the better of the… — John Quincy Adams
The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the power, and falls… — John Quincy Adams
The Republican and Democratic parties, or, to be more exact, the Republican-Democratic party, represent the capitalist class in the class struggle. They are the political… — Eugene V. Debs
The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists. — Walter Ulbricht
Words of divine consciousness: moral exaltation; lasting feelings of elevation, elation, joy; a quickening of the moral sense, which strikes one as more important than… — Yann Martel
Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession… — Marquis de Sade
I see the Koran very much as an outsider. It stands in the great prophetic tradition of trying to return people to the basic principles… — Tony Blair
A principle isn't a principle until it costs you something. — William Bernbach
I have deeply regretted that I did not proceed far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics, for men… — Charles Darwin
If, as I believe, the ends of men are many, and not all of them are in principle compatible with each other, then the possibility… — Isaiah Berlin
Leaders receive and give assignments. This is an important part of the necessary principle of delegating. No one appreciates a willing volunteer more than I,… — James E. Faust
I think that people who study the scriptures get a dimension to their life that nobody else gets and that can’t be gained in any… — Bruce R. McConkie
I am a person who is inclined to define relations between individuals based on principles. — Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Two principles we should always have ready — that there is nothing good or evil save in the will; and that we are not to… — Epictetus

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