Principle Quotes

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

What we have at present is a system of loss socialism. Whatever goes wrong is shouldered by the general public and anything that works is privatised. Worshippers of market freedom have suspended the most important economic principle: Risk and liability go hand in hand.

So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.

I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

It is a sound principle of finance, and a still sounder principle of government, that those who have the duty of expending the revenue of a country should also be saddled with the responsibility of levying and providing it.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.

Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common welfare.

I didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was on the dole most of the time.

And, you know, I watched him in Texas where he stood on his principle but he also reached out to members of the other party to try to work with them, to try to forge agreement where he could in keeping with his conservative principles to make Texas a better place.

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.

Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature.

The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies.

The idea of human rights as a fundamental principle can be seen to underlie throughout Islamic teachings.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

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.

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

Freedom of religion is a principle that is central to our Nation's Declaration of Independence. Congress has taken this positive step to protect our freedom to express allegiance to America's flag and the ideals it represents.

No matter what side of the spectrum you're on, you like to see your team fighting for the principle.

This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by finding ways to encourage legislators to subordinate ambition to principle.

By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess.

IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle.

Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights.

Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.