Principle Quotes

In matters of style, swim with the current: in matters of principle, stand like a rock. (Thomas Jefferson)

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Benjamin Disraeli

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

William James

I say that the strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

George Eliot

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

William Ewart Gladstone

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.

Germaine Greer

There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress, as well as others, than I had any conception [of], before I became President of the U. S.

James K. Polk

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.

George Soros

The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

W. Somerset Maugham

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.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle. (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.

José Martí

Moderation in temper, is always a virtue; but moderation in principle, is a species of vice.

Thomas Paine

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

Thomas Hardy

Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.

Petrarch

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

Edmund Burke

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.

Gertrude Stein

A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge.

Marvin Bower

A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence. (Marvin Bower)

The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle.

James Hutton

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.

George H. W. Bush

An architect, to be a true exponent of his time, must possess first, last and always the sympathy, the intuition of a poet ... this is the one real, vital principle that survives through all places and all times.

Louis Sullivan

As for modern Journalism, its not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest.

Oscar Wilde

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