Principles Quotes

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

It's never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the international law of war and it violates all principles of morality.

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them.

Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century.

China has been committed to the independent foreign policy of peace and has developed friendship and cooperation with all countries on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence.

There's great peace in surrendering to principles

Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage based on faith.

You can design a mortgage system that is different without a Fannie and Freddie, but there are principles you have to have, to have a good system.

What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immovable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.

America's strength is not our diversity; our strength is our ability to unite people of different backgrounds around common principles. A common language is necessary to reach that goal.

I studied what principles under-laid peace and prosperity and concluded the only way to achieve societal well-being was through a system of economic freedom.

For me, I think being a conservative means you are focused on all four key principles: strong defense, lower taxes, less spending, and defending traditional American values.

Instead of your ego directing you and making countless mistakes, allow yourself to be guided by the invisible principles of the universe within your action.

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

It is a solid business principle that people who enjoy what they do are better at what they do.

I hope always to earn my living by my art without having ever deviated by even a hair's breadth from my principles... to please anyone or to sell more easily.

No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice.

It is the business of economists, not to tell us what to do, but show why what we are doing anyway is in accord with proper principles.

Our citizens will lose their confidence or trust in the values and principles of the international community, especially if our personal identity is denied.

Utterance does not in principle mean a weakening of conviction--that would not be anything to be deplored--but a weakness of conviction.

TCP implementations will follow a general principle of robustness: be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.

Progressivism, liberalism, or whatever you want to call it has become an ideology of power. So long as liberals hold it, principles don't matter.

Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite.

I think what we're seeing on a lot of parts of the right is people bending their positions and their principles on account of the fact that Donald Trump won.

We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience.

First of all, principles should be general. That is, it must be possible to formulate them without use of what would be intuitively recognized as proper names, or rigged definite descriptions.

The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights.

with the true convert, holiness is woven into all his powers, principles, and practice.

Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language.

I wondered over again for the hundredth time what could be the principle which, in the wildest, most lawless, fantastically chaotic, apparently capricious work of Nature, always kept it beautiful.

To have dragons one must have change; that is the first principle of dragon lore.

There has been a seismic shift in the business world. The great classical business principles still hold true but they need to be fused with cutting edge internet technology.

You can't be a part-time man of principle.

Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.

To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life.

The movement of the emitters of the spectral lines may be deduced on the basis of the Doppler principle.

Presence always wins out over principles.

The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life.

You don't have to explain yourself. Let your weakness be yours. Let your strength be everybody's. You understand the principle?

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.

Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.

It is my firm belief that all successful languages are grown and not merely designed from first principles

Not only can color, which is under fixed laws, be taught like music, but it is easier to learn than drawing, whose elaborate principles cannot be taught.

Sovereignty is a question of principle. We must tell the Iraqis: you are a sovereign people. And you are in charge of your own future.

You have the Republican establishment that is moving into Hillary's [Clinton] camp. What's happening in this election is sort of proof of principle.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

Politics is about winning. If you don't win, you don't get to put your principles into practice. Therefore, find a way to win, or sit the battle out.

It's against my principles to buy a book I haven't read, it's like buying a dress you haven't tried on.

Whatever principle of intelligence we attain in this life, it will rise with us in the resurrection.

Just like zillions of children, album covers educated and informed me, and certainly did I later transpose organically, rather than by intent, those principles both in fashion design and photography.