Principle Quotes

So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy.

Respect for the dignity of the human person is the foundational principle of any just society. From a Catholic perspective, it also forms the foundation of all of our Church's social teachings.

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.

The combination of Federalism and Republicanism which formed the substance of the system, did not constitute a progressive and formative political principle, but it pointed in the direction of a constructive formula.

The national Democratic Party has embraced abortion on demand. I believe this position is wrong in principle and out of the mainstream of our party's historic commitment to protecting the powerless.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Anything can happen in SF. And the fact that nothing ever does happen in SF is only due to the poverty of our imaginations, we who write it or edit it or read it. But SF can in principle deal with anything.

The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights.

Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.

Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'

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.

I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.

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 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.

Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise, of health.

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.