Principles Quotes

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.

Occasionally, a man must rise above principles.

The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.

The third principle is that any philosophic knowledge is only valuable if it is true or if it works.

Any positive thinker is compelled to see everything in the light of his own convictions.

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.

Efforts to revive the art principles of the past at best produce works of art that resemble a stillborn child.

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.

It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.

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.

Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will be taken over by a Central government

Many people talk a lot about environmental preservation, but true greatness lies in putting these principles into practice and actually doing something about it.

In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not, but I think religious principles are quite valid.

The basic goal-reaching principle is to understand that you go as far as you can see, and when you get there you will always be able to see farther.

How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity.

There is no bandit so powerful as Nature. The interaction of the positive and the negative principles, which produces the visible universe. In the whole universe there is no escape from it.

Money, influence, and position are nothing compared with brains, principles, energy and perseverances.

We need timeless principles to steer by in running our organizations and building our personal careers. We need high standards --- the ethics of excellence.

The organizing principle, which according to an eternal law creates the different essential organs of the body, and animates them, is not itself seated in one particular organ.

The most persistent principles in the universe are accident and error.

Everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger.

I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

Principle is ever my motto, no expediency.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

One can thus state, without fear of being wrong, that every truly artistic production has been conceived and executed according to the principle of irregularity.

I don't have all the answers. I have a lot of questions. And I have some basic principles.

When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.

The mind has its arrangement; it proceeds from principles to demonstrations. The heart has a different mode of proceeding.

Great organisations choose principles over people. When you give up on the principles, sooner or later you will break down.

Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.

I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.

Rules of property ought to be generally known, and not to be left upon loose notes, which rather serve to confound principles, than to confirm them.

A cardinal principle in systems theory is that all parties that have a stake in a system should be represented in its management.

All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.

Thus is the fruit of the Earth taken, its flesh torn. Thus is it given over standing, toward rot. It is the principle of corruption, the death of what is, the birth of what is to be. You are wine.

To totalitarianism, an opponent is by definition subversive; democracy treats subversives as mere opponents for fear of betraying its principles.

As we become civilized we are governed less by persons and more by principles. . . . The best of all leaders is the man who teaches people to lead themselves.

The first issue of The Register was printed in London, and gave a glowing account of the province that was to be - its climate, its resources, the sound principles on which it was founded.

Thus then a single harmony orders the composition of the whole...by the mingling of the most contrary principles.

Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity.

Be careful of selfish motives. You can mistake them for principles and end up dying for them.

[...] to introduce into the philosophy of war itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity

The principles of my works... are the extinction of expression, permanent covering and contemplative tranquillity... My ideal is the completely dark picture, full of some overwhelming silence.

I am greatly pleased with the public, authentic isolation in which we two, you and I, now find ourselves. It is wholly in accord with our attitude and our principles.

Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles.

All religions are good 'in principle' - but unfortunately this abstract Good has only rarely prevented their practitioners from behaving like bastards.

The Third Reich is the first power which not only recognizes, but puts into practice, the high principles of the Papacy.

'Do you think that we shall ever be admitted as a State into the Union without denying the principle of polygamy?' If we are not admitted until then, we shall never be admitted.

Mind exists as a Principle in the universe, just as electricity exists as a principle.

For a physicist mathematics is not just a tool by means of which phenomena can be calculated, it is the main source of concepts and principles by means of which new theories can be created.