Principles Quotes
The whole principle (censorship) is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.
Geometry, like arithmetic, requires for its logical development only a small number of simple, fundamental principles. These fundamental principles are called the axioms of geometry.
The guiding principle of ruling elites was--and still is: When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed.
There must be sophistry in all this; but the condition of a slave confuses all principles of morality, and, in fact, renders the practice of them impossible.
Music is a science which should have definite rules; these rules should be drawn from an evident principle; and this principle cannot really be known to us without the aid of mathematics.
The devaluation of words and promises regarding free enterprise is, in principle, worse than the devaluation of the rouble
Government is rather ill-suited and poorly equipped to alleviate the plight of the poor. It lacks moral rules or standards, and is devoid of basic principles in economic and social matters.
Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.
AIDS is our number one enemy. This enemy can be defeated. While the research for a cure continues, four principles -- love, support, acceptance and care for those affected -- can make us winners.
Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.
The principles of successful stock speculation are based on the supposition that people will continue in the future to make the mistakes that they have made in the past.
Sanctification is the outcome and inseparable consequence of regeneration. He who is born again and made a new creature receives a new nature and a new principle and always lives a new life.
Its a matter of principle. If Jews born in Brooklyn have a right to a state in Palestine then Palestinians born in Jerusalem have a right to a state in Palestine.
I spent an important part of my life participating in conflicts. But for me, conflict was not the main principle.
Boston was a moral and intellectual nursery, always busy applying first principles to trifles.
I believe the ultimate goal of living and refining your values is to identify and achieve congruence with universal principles.
Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.
The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught.
The principle of equal pay for equal work is written in the EU Treaties since 1957. It is high time that it is put in practice everywhere.
Those who assume hypotheses as first principles of their speculations.....may indeed form an ingenious romance, but a romance it will still be.
When I think about parallels between myself and an Olympian, I believe that success in the world of business is underpinned by very similar principles of perseverance and hard work.
While the proximate ground of discrimination may be of another kind, still the pervading principle and abiding test of good breeding is the requirement of a substantial and patent waste of time.
When the responses elicited by the Epic of Evolution are gathered together several religious principles emerge that I can believe, serve as a framework for a global Ethos.
Wall Street has a few prudent principles; the trouble is that they are always forgotten when they are most needed.
Happiness is only to be found in a recurrence to the principles of human nature; and these will prompt very simple measures.
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 the sap of life goes flowing in another direction.
Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It's coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as final assembly.
Everyone has values; even criminal gangs have values. Values govern people's behavior but principles govern the consequences of those behaviors.
In a way then, the Divine Principle, this new revelation, is the documentary of my life. It is my own life experience. The Divine Principle is in me, and I am in the Divine Principle.
If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.
We must not offer people a system of redemption, a set of insights and principles. We offer people a Redeemer.
What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation.
I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.
This oxidation of hydrogen in stages seems to be one of the basic principles of biological oxidation.
Tis against some mens principle to pay interest, and seems against others interest to pay the principle.
The principles stated in the proclamation on the family are a beautiful expression of this gospel culture.
When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.
I guess if people all followed the basic principles of their own religions, they would love everybody instead of hating half the world.
Our job in physics is to see things simply, to understand a great many complicated phenomena in a unified way, in terms of a few simple principles.