Principles Quotes

The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.

In randori we learn employ the principle of maximum efficiency even when we could easily overpower an opponent.

Among the principles of the Ahlus Sunnah wal Jama'ah lie the attitude of peace and purity of their heart and tongue towards the Sahaba(Companions) of the Prophet (saw).

Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.

The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.

Ours is the age of substitutes: Instead of language we have jargon; instead of principles, slogans; and instead of genuine ideas, bright suggestions.

A general principle for all user interface design is to go through all of your design elements and remove them one at a time.

The security of which we speak is to be attained by the development of international law through an international organization based on the principles of law and justice.

But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have been called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists.

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle.

The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.

On general principle, I boycott shows that don't employ actors.

The Tao principle is what happens of itself.

Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.

I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the People's Charter were in the habit of assembling

The Dilbert Principle: People are idiots.

The principles behind explaining and educating the product or the elected official is similar, even though the actual execution of it is very, very different.

He had preserved the best part of her and made it his own: the principle of her scent.

Nonresistance is one of the principles of aikido. Because there is no resistance, you have won before even starting. People whose minds are evil or who enjoy fighting are defeated without a fight.

This is America. We must defend the principles symbolized by Lady Liberty - unless she's on the pill, in which case, she is a giant green tramp.

Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.

I wanted them to be diverse. The whole underlying principle of the X-Men was to try to be an anti-bigotry story to show there's good in every person.

Hope consists in asserting that there is at the heart of being, beyond all data, beyond all inventories and all calculations, a mysterious principle which is in connivance with me

Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.

Divide and Conquer. As long as some people have commanded the work of others, this has been management's basic principle.

To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.

The principle of subordination is the great bond of union and harmony through the universe.

The future is deterministic in principle, but not in practice.

Three principles of prayer: 1. Keep it honest. 2. Keep it simple. 3. Keep it up.

Just remember, strength and courage. If you stand on principle, you'll never lose.

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.

An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles.

Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral principles. Whether we believe in God or karma, ethics is the foundation of every religion.

We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!

The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.

So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.

The possibility of reduced-time interstellar travel either by advanced extraterrestrial civilizations at present or ourselves in the future, is not fundamentally constrained by physical principles.

Leadership, in short, is power governed by principle, directed toward raising people to their highest levels of personal motive and social morality.

The one principle that surrounds everything else is that of stewardship; that we are the managers of everything that God has given us

The only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government is the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible.

Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away.

The proposition that Muslims are welcome in Britain if, and only if, they stop behaving like Muslims is a doctrine which is incompatible with the principles that guide a free society.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it'll wake them up.

The more clearly a principle is understood by the intellect, the more inexcusable is the neglect to put it into practice.

A basic principle of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are socialized to the extent possible, while profit is privatized.

There are no "standards of Right". Ethics is balderdash. Each Star must go on its own orbit. To hell with "moral principle"; there is no such thing.

I have added these principles to the law: get the Knights into action before both Bishops are developed

Without the discovery of uniformities there can be no concepts, no classifications, no formulations, no principles, no laws; and without these no science can exist.