Principles Quotes
Dr. King's general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.
I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what fiction is, and should be.
We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business. And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
The general principle is that the victors don't look at themselves or concede anything. The defeated typically have to, except when it's beneficial to the powerful for them not to.
When our party had only seven men, it already had two principles. First, it wanted to be a party with a true ideology. And second, it wanted to be the one and only power in Germany.
I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation.
The basic principle is that the losers have to confess, not the victors. When they do it, it's a crime. When we do it, it's not. And more generally, it's the defeated who are tried, not the victors.
The as if principle works. Act as if you were not afraid and you will become courageous, as if you could and you'll find you can. Act as if you like a person and you'll find a friendship.
We ought not to schismatize on either men or measures. Principles alone can justify that.
One of the greatest of all principles is that men can do what they think they can do.
For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them
Being an art form, verse cannot be "free" in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principle.
Marquise de Merteuil: I've distilled every thing to one single principle: win or die.
The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap
Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.
The principles of the SPD have remained the same for 150 years: democracy, human dignity, justice and inclusion. We will never change those principles.
Blind zeal is soon put to a shameful retreat, while holy resolution, built on fast principles, lifts up its head like a rock in the midst of the waves.
(Waste = Loss): The first rule of business is to survive and the guiding principle of business economics is not the maximisation of profit, it is the avoidance of loss
Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form.
We must imbue our children with principles of the higher-self, principles which see all people as true equals, and above all, which are sensitive to the delicate and fragile balance of life.
The American people don't need to just hear about the importance of the Constitution or the Bible. They have to understand that those principles are in their best interests.
I call prodigy all that is invented, all that begins to exist from the second it is conceived, it is the process not the results, the principle and not the fruits.
I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial, but if ever I should, it will be then known how far I can reduce to practice, principles, which I know to be founded in truth.
Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.
That you cannot have Christian principles without Christ is becoming increasingly clear, because their validity as principles depends on Christ's authority.
The young were always theoretical; only the middle-aged could realize the deadliness of principles.
Placing the state in charge of moral principles is equivalent to putting the proverbial fox in charge of the chicken coop.
It is the principle of sin, rebellion against God and His truth which has brought about birth defects and other destructive natural occurrences.
It is extremely unfortunate that an editor's own life and practice should be notoriously at variance with his written principles.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.
All secret oath-bound political parties are dangerous to any nation, no matter how pure or how patriotic the motives and principles which first bring them together.
At best the principles that economists have supposed the choices of rational individuals to satisfy can be presented as guidelines for us to consider when we make our decisions.
One of the major principles is that Soviet literature must be inseverably linked with the policy of the Communist party
As the capacity to coerce declines, it is natural to turn to control of opinion as the basis for authority and domination - a fundamental principle of government already emphasized by David Hume.
There is no difference in principle, ... between the economic philosophy of Nazism, socialism, communism, and fascism and that of the American welfare state and regulated economy.
The ascription of an unconscious intentional phenomenon to a system implies that the phenomenon is in principle accessible to consciousness.
If you are animated by right principles, and are fully awakened to the true dignity of life, the subject of amusements may be left to settle itself.
If what charms you is nothing but abstract principles, sit down and turn them over quietly in your mind: but never dub yourself a Philosopher.
In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and principles.
Two principles we should always have ready — that there is nothing good or evil save in the will; and that we are not to lead events, but to follow them.
I will always speak out when someone says that a principle or a rule or a tradition trumps people.