Principles Quotes
This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.
A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.
If you want spiritual life you have to pay the price. The price is the four regulative principles.
The sculptor must search with passionate intensity for the underlying principle of the organisation of mass and tension - the meaning of gesture and the structure of rhythm.
When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.
The United States is not a nation based upon race, creed, or religion - we are a nation based upon our loyalty and allegiance to our country and her principles.
In the most civilized and progressive countries freedom of discussion is recognized as a fundamental principle.
The Christian life from start to finish is based upon this principle of utter dependence upon the Lord Jesus.
What is magnificent about humans is when they decide to turn and stand. If they respond with non-violence on principle and hold their ground, they are really magnificent.
Opinion, whether well or ill-founded, is the governing principle of human affairs
There are four principles we really taught: to live passionately, love completely, learn humbly and then lead boldly.
Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery, and the best form of tenacity I know is expressed in a Danish fur trapper's principle: "The next mile is the only one a person really has to make."
It's so easy to become a grumbler, someone who condemns and carps at everything on principle and sees an ulterior motive behind it.
When you aren't sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you end up believing yourself; that's the basic principle of every faith.
A single legislature, on account of the superabundance of its power, and the uncontrolled rabidity of its execution, becomes as dangerous to the principles of liberty as that of a despotic monarch.
That wall is a one directional wall. It keeps the government from running the church but it makes sure that Christian principles will always stay in government.
Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?
Canon is basically a very aggressive company. Our company works on competitive principles. It does not treat people equally, but it does treat them fairly.
True religion, like our founding principles, requires that the rights of the disbeliever be equally acknowledged with those of the believer.
Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law.
Great nations need organizing principles, and 'Don't do stupid stuff' is not an organizing principle.
If you are not willing to take pain to live by your principles, there is no point in having principles.
I follow a set of principles; I follow the Constitution. And that's what I base my votes on. Limited government, economic freedom, and individual liberty.
Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.
The first duty of man is to take none of the principles of conduct upon trust; to do nothing without a clear and individual conviction that it is right to be done.
Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other.
The aim of the Church is to help the people to help themselves. Work is to be re-enthroned as the ruling principle of the lives of our Church membership
I worry that humanity has been "advanced" to its present level of incompetency because evolution works on the Peter Principle.
People can be unreliable and disloyal; possessions can lose their value; jobs that once stimulated you can become boring. But principles remain steady through it all.
The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of that activity by reference to principles.
It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.
Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.
It is a disgrace to let ignorance and vanity do more with us than prudence and principle.
It is necessary for the welfare of the nation that men's lives be based on the principles of the Bible. No man, educated or uneducated, can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.
Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.
Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.
It is never difficult to see images – when the principle of the image is embedded in the soul.
And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art. . .
The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility.
But for us, in Syria, we have principles. We'll do anything to prevent the region from another crazy war. It's not only Syria. Because it will start in Syria.