Principles Quotes

Obey the principles without being bound by them.

Learn the principles, abide by the principles, and then dissolve the principles.

What should have died along with communism is the belief that modern societies can be run on a singl...

Propensities and principles must be reconciled by some means.

Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as ...

I must not forget that these coarsely-clad little peasants are of flesh and blood as good as the sci...

I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do.  I need not sell my soul t...

So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the ha...

Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in rememb...

Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in rememb...

But what [Orwell] illustrates, by his commitment to language as the partner of truth, is that 'views...

And here is the point, about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles a...

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.", Fe...

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

Rebuild your world, rebuild your race, rebuild your empire. Rebuild it all. But make sure you rebuil...

Whereas purpose provides the juice and the direction, principles define the parameters of action and...

I have always supported measures and principles and not men.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

It is generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles and des...

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

The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon [the 'Super', i.e. the hydrogen ...

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are ...

I am a man of principles, and my first principle is flexibility.

One cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

Principles are what people have instead of God.To be a Christian means among other things to be will...

A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament th...

There are ultimately only two possible adjustments to life; one is to suit our lives to principles; ...

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth.

If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this ca...

We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation ...

What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time tha...

Sir, I had rather be right than to be President.

Sir, I would rather be right than to be President.

There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstanc...

China has been committed to the independent foreign policy of peace and has developed friendship and...

Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.

As nature has uncovered from under this hard shell the seed for which she most tenderly cares - the ...

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

Are your principles not engraved in all hearts, and in order to learn your laws is it not enough to ...

Something like this will test you like nothing else," Mac said. "You're going to find out who you ar...

People who put principles before people are people who hate people. They don’t much care about how w...

I have determined, the Almighty God being my help and my shield, yet to suffer, if frail life might ...

Principles? Principles won’t do. Acquisitions, clothes, pretty rags—rags that would fly off at the f...

I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the...

If there be such a principle as justice, or natural law, it is the principle, or law, that tells us ...

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

The respect and protection of woman and of maternity should be raised to the position of an inaliena...

Spiritual principles do not change, but we do.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

Reforms will come as all great reforms have always come in ridding us of evils against both man and ...

It is right that we should stand by and act on our principles; but not right to hold them in obstina...

My principles are more important than the money or my title.

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop acc...

It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine so...

His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.

It is the bungled crime that brings remorse.

In my stubborn youth, I believed that I could stand alone, that I was strong enough to conquer my en...

But in his years among the drow, Drizzt Do'Urden had learned to look beyond physical beauty and phys...

Drizzt felt the despair most keenly. For all the trials of his hard life, the drow had held faith fo...

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

Thomas More: Will, I'd trust you with my life. But not your principles. You see, we speak of being a...

Now this was one of the things I had been brought up to eschew like disgrace; it being held by my fa...

While it is never safe to affirm that the future of Physical Science has no marvels in store even mo...

We Catholics have not only to do our best to keep down our own warring passions and live decent live...

The U.N. guards the vital principles entrenched in its charter, notably the sovereign equality of st...

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injust...

If you held to principle so passionately, so inflexibly, indifferent in the particulars of circumsta...

There is indeed something deeply wrong with a person who lacks principles, who has no moral core. Th...

There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.

When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are.

If equally matched, we can offer battle; if slightly inferior in numbers, we can avoid the enemy; if...

It is the bad people who need to have principles to restrain them.

It is amazing that the wisdom of the chattering class to the Republicans is always, always, always '...

The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up wi...

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.

Who then was the orthodox, who the freethinker? Where lay the true position, the true state of man? ...

An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which th...

The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on...

The task of a truly revolutionary party is not to declare that it is impossible to renounce all comp...

Sympathy is one of the principles most widely rooted in our nature: we rejoice to see ourselves refl...

Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask noth...

We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.

It's never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the internati...

Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditio...

I follow the course marked out by my principles and, what is more, enjoy a deep and noble pleasure i...

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

The case for freedom, the case for our constitutional principles the case for our heritage has to be...

The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole.

To admit what you see endangers principles.

We have power as consumers. We can exercise that power all the time by not choosing to invest time, ...

Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available...