Principle Quotes
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To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to have some kind of guiding principle. A belief of some kind.
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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.
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The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings.
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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 thought we were fighting for an important principle.
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The principle of majority does not work when differences on fundamentals are involved.
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The principle that needs to be used to guide the spending is, 'How successful is the program?'
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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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Policy and politics generally go contrary to principle.
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His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.
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Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment.
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But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
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I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.
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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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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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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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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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Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.
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In principle the great religions of the world do not differ as much as they appear to.
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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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I have presented principles of philosophy that are not, however, philosophical but strictly mathematical-that is, those on which the study of philosophy can be based. These principles are the laws and conditions of motions and of forces, which especially relate to philosophy.
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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.
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The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights.
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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.
