Principles Quotes

Why should the soul ever repose? God, its Principle, reposes never.

Language is the leading principle which unites or separates the tribes of mankind.

Whenever the spirit of fanaticism, at once so credulous and so crafty, has insinuated itself into a noble mind, it insensibly corrodes the vital principles of virtue and veracity.

The thegn who deems an unjust doom is to lose his thegnship. It is a principle which can be widely applied

Separation of church and state cannot mean an absolute separation between moral principles and political power.

The big tech companies understood that the government had not only damaged American principles, it had hurt their businesses.

When I talk about the polling, I'm talking about the principles. It shows these officials are knowingly attempting to shift public opinion, even though they know what they say is not factual.

I don't know anything about cars. A business is a business, and I think I can learn about cars. I'm not that old, and I think the business principles are the same.

[Tibet] is a small country based on religious principle, religious traditions. It never wanted any conquest.

To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.

There is a great deal in a name. It often signifies much, and may involve a great principle.

Let us remember that all reforms are interdependent, and that whatever is done to establish one principle on a solid base, strengthens all.

Compromise today is too often applauded simply for itself. The cost of compromise to principles and real lives doesn't seem to matter.

Belief is a good thing in principle, but an annoying thing in human beings.

Too much principle is often more harmful than too little.

a successful politician does not have convictions; he has emotions.

The issue for us is rebuilding a governing majority that is comfortable with differences that can transcend the divisiveness and unify behind the principles that we know our party has succeeded on.

The Liberal Party abandoned the principles of reform and social liberalism and has become, instead, just another piece of political machinery in the service of corporatism.

Constructing a social system that tends to those who agree with it is a piece of cake compared to constructing one that makes those who disagree with it want to obey its principles.

This foundational principle - that human beings derive their rights from God, rather than from the State, or any other source - is what made America different.

It's all very well to have principles, but when it comes to money you have to be flexible.

For me, the main principle for broadcasters has to be that if people stand to benefit from an interview, they should be prepared to face some downside as well.

I've always had two principles throughout all my life in motion-pictures: never do before the camera what you would not do at home and never do at home what you would not do before the camera.

Why communitarian socialism? Now not only do we have the pursuit of happiness for man, as a government, as a program or as our principles. But as well to live in harmony with Mother Earth.

A man must not only stand for the right principles, but he must also fight for them. Those who fight for principle can be proud of the friends they've gained and the enemies they've earned.

We must be devoted to sound principles in word and deed: principle above party, principle above pocketbook, principle above popularity.

The American principles of democracy expresses the deepest values of the Sharia both structurally and in the government... Sharia requires us Muslims anywhere to abide by the law of the land.

Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.

The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.

Equality, therefore, becomes the criterion because we can handle all that in process, but we can't handle that as principle without infringing on freedom.

It has to be simple, but then you deliver them a principle: The simple truth is, as a matter of principle, we cannot spend more than we take in. Something - that changes the tone of the debate.

Richard Nixon will always go down as a failure because of one stupid, moral - and that goes back to that last chapter, on principles.

You need good principles and good language if you are to succeed.

Do you think that it is possible to have a mere taste of commonness? Either one hates it or makes common cause with it.

it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.' 'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It turns lying into a universal principle.

Principle of "Christian love": it insists upon being well paid in the end.

Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity.

The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity.

He who knows not how to plant his will in things at least endows them with some meaning: that is to say, he believes that a will is already present in them (A principle of faith.)

The weak and misbegotten shall perish: first principle of our brotherly love. And they shall be given every assistance.

by operating on the principle of human and material obsolescence, America eats her history alive.

I'm not sure I can articulate any principles behind the decisions about what to cut and what to keep.

Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.

We need to build a Biblical friendship, a friendship established on the principles of God's Word.

Principles without programs are platitudes.

A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great harm when he is morally acting on the highest principles.

Well, sir, you never can tell. That's a principle in life with me, sir, if you'll excuse my having such a thing.

As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything.

I am open to conviction on all points except dinner and debts. I hold that the one must be eaten and the other paid.

Whatever lies beyond the limits of experience, and claims another origin than that of induction and deduction from established data, is illegitimate.