Principles Quotes

The market is like the police: of course you need it, but if it becomes the central organizing principle of your culture then you're in deep trouble.

Burton did not believe in miracles . Nothing happened that could not be explained by physical principles if you knew all the facts .

We can’t expect the nation to operate by Christian principles… but we can expect this of the church.

Past violence is detrimental to our present action, and it is not in the name of principles that we denounce it, but in the name of efficiency.

The soul of man... is a portion or a copy of the soul of the Universe and is joined together on principles and in proportions corresponding to those which govern the Universe.

It will be impossible to put these principles into practice unless the non-owning workers through industry and thrift advance to the state of possessing some little property.

There is no principle involved in my holdout. Only money.

I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.

Hansel is certainly about comfort, while still sort of having a peacock principle of wanting to attract attention.

Truth, though, is nothing in the face of self-falsehood, and principles are of no value if the idealist cannot live up to his own standards.

I'm not trying to copy Nature, I'm trying to find the principles she's using.

Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image and the reality.

A feminist man is a bit like a vegetarian: it's the humanitarian principle he's defending, I suppose.

You know the public is more easily swayed by persons than by principles.

We can not imitate great souls. However to study, analyse and imbibe the principles they teach and embody, is the path of progress.

Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his fortune, and only cares that the world shall last his days.

The specific media may change, but the principles of human nature have remained fairly constant over the millenia.

The principle of avoiding the unnecessary expenditure of energy has enabled the species to survive in a world full of stimuli; but it prevents the survival of the aristocracy.

Religion mustn't interfere with the state - so one of the basic Democratic principles as we know it in America is the separation of church and state.

Any [political] party without principles is rudderless and passive.

It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.

the principles of political economy have elevated the working class above the place they ever filled before.

Starting in the seventeenth century, the general theory of extreme values - maxima and minima - has become one of the systematic integrating principles of science.

The fundamental principle of science, the definition almost, is this: the sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment.

We can deduce, often, from one part of physics like the law of gravitation, a principle which turns out to be much more valid than the derivation.

The oldest principle of composition: repeat everything.

It is time to let America be America again. To return freedom to the people. To stand on our founding principles and reject the cynical politics of the Nanny State.

Ted Cruz will point Americans back to the principles established by our Constitution enabling you to live free.

Each one of us has the ability to play the game of life with balance, harmony and joy, but we need to know the rules and the principles.

That young man seeks opportunities to test his principles as readily as a drunk picks fights in a bar.

If you ask me if I have this or that principle, tell me what its consequences are, and then I'll tell you whether I have that principle or not.

A new model of heroic capitalism based on principle-driven, free-market entrepreneurship deserves a central place in business-ethics thought and action.

On the principle laid down by Gilbert and Sullivan that when everybody is somebody, nobody is anybody; if everybody is abnormal, we don't need to worry about anybody.

Nobody seriously questions the principle that it is the function of mass culture to maintain public morale, and certainly nobody in the mass audience objects to having his morale maintained.

There is no real answer [to the U.S. economic crisis] but to remove brick by brick the capitalist system itself, rebuilding the entire society on socialist principles.

To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting.

My dear fellow, my whole life is moved by the principle that the one thing which is more important than peace is music. It is because I believe that I am poor.

If we are machines, then in principle at least, we should be able to build machines out of other stuff, which are just as alive as we are.

He that upon a true principle lives, without any disquiet of thought, may be said to be happy.

Secession is a deeply American principle. This country was born through secession.

How about this?" I said, because now it was the principle of the thing. "I'm sorry, jackass.

I'm the only one of the republican candidates who's actually turned an economy around and turned it around with the with kind of pro-growth principles that we're talking about for America.

Citizen service is a repudiation of the principles upon which our country was based. We are all here for ourselves.

I do transcendental meditation, which is, I suppose, derived from Vedic or Ayurvedic principles, which is sort of Hindu principles.

Ultimately, as individuals we each have to ask ourselves to be courageous and apply certain principles.

You need to become more genuine to who you are. So, people pushing you can help take you to the level where you really understand the principles and enter them into action.

People can be trained in certain principles, but then they actually have to apply them and try them out.

The principles of Buddhism have become more commonplace, which is a good thing.

Principle #1: Avoid dangerous people and dangerous places. Principle #2: Do not defend your property. Principle #3: Respond immediately and escape.

Of how much importance is it, that the utmost pains be taken by the public to have the principles of virtue early inculcated on the minds even of children, and the moral sense kept alive.