Aspiration Quote by Lord Acton

There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.

— Honore de Balzac

The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that moral principles contradict the…

— Susan Sontag

Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to…

— George Packer

Principles are things which one calls upon to avoid something unpleasant.

— Multatuli

The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being - which cannot be proved existentially to the sense…

— Walter Lippmann

Principles are what people have instead of God.

— Alexander Schmemann

Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes.

— Seneca the Younger

Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

“There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances. The superior man espouses events and…

— Honoré de Balzac

Principles have a way of enduring, as do the few irreducible individuals who maintain allegiance to them.

— Christopher Hitchens

General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is…

— William Hazlitt

“Principles are fundamental truths that serve as the foundations for behavior that gets you what you want out of life. They can be applied…

— Ray Dalio