Principle Quotes

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.

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.

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

Many states rely on sales tax as their principle source of revenue and do not have a State income tax.

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.

The principle that light can be in two places at the same time is absolutely extraordinary.

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

Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phenomenal performances of these outstanding characters will obviously show.

Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the strengthening of the State, was really and in principle the initiation of the State's destruction.

It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.

An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.

And I think the rolling polls put more pressure on them to sustain their beliefs and to improve their delivery of the policy and their delivery of the ideas so that they can garner support for whatever principle they're articulating.

Now, there is no way to say how long some projects take, that's our principle.

Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with reason or the soul.