Principle Quotes

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.

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

The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.

Right now, I'm following the Buddhist principle: Smile as abuse is hurled your way and this too shall pass.

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.

Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.

The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.

Championing liberty begins at the local level. There is nothing more fundamental than the principle that a man's home is his castle. Donald Trump's career-long willingness to trample this right tells you everything you need to know about his bogus tea party sideshow.

Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle, justified by exemplary conversation.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

There can be no intelligent control of the lead danger in industry unless it is based on the principle of keeping the air clear from dust and fumes.

The question I should have asked is not what is the rule, but what is the principle.

Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful and sensual. Red is matter, brutal and heavy and always the colour which must be fought and vanquished by the other two.

The first principle of the market economy is that it is comprised of many small buyers and sellers, which implies a substantial degree of equity. Another fundamental market principle is that costs are internalized in the producer's price.

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.