Principles Quotes
It's one of the most fundamental desires of man, of being free and flying unhindered, and it really seems to go a lot with our founding fathers' principles of freedom.
The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.
A person of wisdom is not one who practices Buddhism apart from worldly affairs but, rather, one who thoroughly understands the principles by which the world is governed.
If we care about universal principles such as freedom, democracy and the rule of law, we cannot leave them to the care of market forces; we must establish some other institutions to safeguard them.
Whenever there is a conflict between universal principles and self-interest, self-interest is likely to prevail.
For a truly effective social campaign, a brand needs to embrace the first principles of marketing, which involves brand definition and consistent storytelling.
What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow.
Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'
I say to everyone within the sound of my voice, 'Do not fail the Lord'. We must accept the truth that the gospel principles are not on trial but that we are.
The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War.
The person determined to achieve maximum success learns the principle that progress is made one step at a time.
Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions
The failure-dichotomy principle: failure is good. Failure is not an option. Balance those in your brain.
Either this is logical and true, or else the principles on which economic science is based are invalid.
Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty.
It affords a violent prejudice against almost every science, that no prudent man, however sure of his principles, dares prophesy concerning any event, or foretell the remote consequences of things.
Tied to the value of the person is the principle of servanthood. We value what we freely serve.
The idea of God is the type and foundation of the principle of authority and absolutism, which it is our task to destroy or at least to subordinate wherever it manifests itself.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.
That decision to commit your life to certain principles and a certain narrative, if I wrote a paper on that, I know I'd find inconsistencies.
An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.
We Indians are Latin America's moral reserve. We act according to a universal law that consists of three basic principles: do not steal, do not lie and do not be idle.
Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.
The principle is so perfectly general that no particular application of it is possible.
Selfishness is the grand moving principle of nine-tenths of our actions.
The reason why principles are so important is because principles make life predictable.
There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.
But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.
To me, patriotism means dedication to the principles on which the country was founded and a willingness to stand firm and fight for these principles regardless of what the government says or does
Thus, the Archivist must display at all times scrupulous independence and a devotion to the laws and principles which govern the responsibilities of the office.
I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse and in a republican government more than in any other.
I am a radical in thought (and principle) and a conservative in method (and conduct).
The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.
The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.
It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms of animal life.
I am committed to the principle that violence is never justified as a means of ameliorating a grievance.
For we do not think that we know a thing until we are acquainted with its primary conditions or first principles, and have carried our analysis as far as its simplest elements.
This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by finding ways to encourage legislators to subordinate ambition to principle.
Efforts to revive the art principles of the past at best produce works of art that resemble a stillborn child.
I have two things going for me. The first is the fidelity to my principles, and the other is my ability to show up for the fight every day. Period that.
The Greatest evils inflicted by man over the face of the Earth are wrought not by the self-seekers, the pleasure lovers, or the merely amoral, but by the fervent devotees of ethical principles.
The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.
It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.