Principle Quotes

The United Nations, whose membership comprises almost all the states in the world, is founded on the principle of the equal worth of every human being.

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.

A convention was drawn up on June 17, 1925, in which the principle of supervision, as opposed to that of simple propaganda, was recognized, thanks to the efforts of the labour members, of whom I was one.

The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular.

When I was playing for tips in college, I felt a fire in my soul. I had the same principle of focus that I had learned playing football.

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.

When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.

But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms of animal life.

And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming to act as representatives or masters of the entire people within a given area.

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

Here we are to remember that in consequence of our opinion that labor is the Father and active principle of wealth, as lands are the Mother, that the state by killing, mutilating, or imprisoning their members do withal punish themselves.

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.

The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things.

The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.

I am a radical in thought (and principle) and a conservative in method (and conduct).

The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man - that is to say, the strongest and cleverest - is likely to get the best woman, in the sense of the most beautiful person.

There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike.

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

That was the principle of reparations to which President Truman agreed at Potsdam. And the United States will not agree to the taking from Germany of greater reparations than was provided by the Potsdam Agreement.