Principles Quotes

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Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students. — B.K.S. Iyengar
There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance... Tolerance applies only to… — Fulton J. Sheen
The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism. — Lajos Kossuth
Some of my colleagues who are criticized today for lack of forthright principles-or who are looked upon with scorn as compromising "politicians"-are simply engaged in… — John F. Kennedy
Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those who come to… — Walter Lippmann
It is no hard matter to get children; but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and… — Michel de Montaigne
Behavior, n. Conduct, as determined, not by principle, but by breeding. — Ambrose Bierce
I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct, nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given… — Mark Twain
Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season. — Mark Twain
A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive, a jay will… — Mark Twain
Everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger. — Plato
Though written constitutions may be violated in moments of passion or delusion, yet they furnish a text to which those who are watchful may again… — Thomas Jefferson
I am for a government rigorously frugal & simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of the national debt;… — Thomas Jefferson
He who is as faithful to his principles as he is to himself is the true partisan. — William Hazlitt
There is the work of great men and there is the work of little men. Therefore it is said, 'Some labor with their minds and… — Mencius
Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of drying up while… — Max Lerner
I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation. — Max Lerner
Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function,… — Gilbert Adair
Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly on the move,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
One of the most ordinary weaknesses of the human intellect is to seek to reconcile contrary principles, and to purchase peace at the expense of… — Alexis de Tocqueville
I'm trying to encourage my children's generation and the other ones coming to return to basic American principles. — Stewart Udall
Fasting is the first principle of medicine; fast and see the strength of the spirit reveal itself. — Rumi
I've distilled everything to one simple principle: win or die! — Glenn Close
The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not… — Lincoln Steffens
To abandon the principle of simplicity would be to abandon all reasoning about the external world — Jim Holt

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