Principle Quotes

A national evil requires a national remedy; let not this any longer be delayed: let your minds expand, free from every narrow principle, and let the public good become the sole object of your united Christian efforts.

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius.

For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it.

As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean.

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

One principle I've been fighting for that doesn't endear me to a lot of people is that black people can be just as complicated and screwed up as white people. Our motives can be just as base and violent. Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

The principle of subordination is the great bond of union and harmony through the universe.

We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation.

The principle part of faith is patience.

The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over.

As a novelist, you could say that I am dreaming while I am awake, and every day I can continue with yesterday's dream. Because it is a dream, there are so many contradictions and I have to adjust them to make the story work. But, in principle, the original dream does not change.

I think you need people of principle, of character, that are leaders, that take stands on important tough issues that will affect the future of this country.

When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

They fail to recognize the broad biological principle that organic material is constantly being recycled. Everything has a time of being - a birth, a life span, and a death.

I am committed to the principle that violence is never justified as a means of ameliorating a grievance.

Anyone who really studies Catholicism deeply is aware of the mystical nature of our faith. Even references to Christ's mystical body has connections to that principle.

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

Most electronic equipment uses the principle of amplification. You need filters, modulators and mixing equipment which have gain stages. By piling these components up, I was able to work without any sound generators and I made several pieces in that manner.

As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way.

There should be a moral principle there that says, let's green the ghetto first. Let's go to those communities where they have the least ability to pay for that retrofit and make sure they get that help, make sure they get that support. And give the young people standing on those corners the opportunity to put down those handguns and pick up some caulking guns and be a part of the solution.

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.

The principle though remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will fight again.

God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not conceive Himself, if, in order to do it, He required to know His own principle.

The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother.

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

To speak, therefore, of an electric current in the nerves, is to use quite as symbolic an expression as if we compared the action of the nervous principle with light or magnetism.

The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.

We want to assert the very principle that truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.