Principle Quotes
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Well, sir, you never can tell. That's a principle in life with me, sir, if you'll excuse my having such a thing.
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His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.
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By rejecting the authority of the individual and replacing it by the numbers of some momentary mob, the parliamentary principle of majority rule sins against the basic aristocratic principle of Nature.
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I thought we were fighting for an important principle.
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Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity.
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So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that which a prudent man would use to determine it. It is a mean between two kinds of vice, one of excess and the other of deficiency.
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Everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger.
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Sometimes we're actually right when we go with our gut and stand on principle in supporting underdog candidates.
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I concluded that I might take as a general rule the principle that all things which we very clearly and obviously conceive are true: only observing, however, that there is some difficulty in rightly determining the objects which we distinctly conceive.
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This element, the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it.
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It's not that I'm against nudity. I'm German, I'm very open, in Germany they lay in the park naked. It's just the principle.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.
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It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.
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All things as subsist from nature appear to contain in themselves a principle of motion and permanency; some according to place, others according to increase and diminuation; and others according to change in quality.
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I would inquire of reasonable persons whether this principle: Matter is naturally wholly incapable of thought, and this other: I think, therefore I am, are in fact the same in the mind of Descartes, and in that of St. Augustine, who said the same thing twelve hundred years before.
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Trust is such an important principle for me. I want to believe in the best of each person, and some time back, I have experienced that trust being broken - which shook me to the core.
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The parliamentary principle of vesting legislative power in the decision of the majority rejects the authority of the individual and puts a numerical quota of anonymous heads in its place. In doing so it contradicts the aristocratic principle, which is a fundamental law of nature.
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Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment.
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The central principle of investment is to go contrary to the general opinion, on the grounds that if everyone agreed about its merits, the investment is inevitably too dear and therefore unattractive.
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Moral self-infatuation has its own corruptions, after all. With time, almost every other principle of the magazine acquired an ironic echo, a sort of cackling aftermath.
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But the Lacedaemonians, who make it their first principle of action to serve their country's interest, know not any thing to be just or unjust by any measure but that.
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The people currently in charge have forgotten the first principle of an open society, namely that we may be wrong and that there has to be free discussion. That it's possible to be opposed to the policies without being unpatriotic.
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The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights.
