Principle Quotes - page 11

Those who deny the first principle should be flogged or burned until they admit that it is not the same thing to be burned and not burned, or whipped and not whipped. (Avicenna)
I submit respectfully to the House as a general principle that our responsibility in this matter is directly proportionate to our power. Where there is great power there is great responsibility, where there is less power there is less responsibility, and where there is no power there can, I think, be no responsibility. View quote
Winston Churchill
The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges on moral foundations. In other words, that this is a moral universe, and that there are moral laws of the universe just as abiding as the physical laws. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it. View quote
Arthur Miller
As we can not give a general definition of energy, the principle of the conservation of energy signifies simply that there is something which remains constant. View quote
Henri Poincaré
The game of science is, in principle, without end. He who decides one day that scientific statements do not call for any further test, and that they can be regarded as finally verified, retires from the game. View quote
Karl Popper
In our worship of certainty we must distinguish between the sound certainty and the sham, between what is gold and what is tinsel; and then, when certainty is attained, we must remember that it is not the only good; that we can buy it at too high a price; that there is danger in perpetual quiescence as well as in perpetual motion; and that a compromise must be found in a principle of growth. View quote
Benjamin N. Cardozo
Protection is not a principle but an expedient. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
A precedent embalms a principle. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. It is no doubt a sublimer effort of genius than the Greek style; but then it depends much more on execution for its effect. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will... be taken over by a Central government... (Peter Drucker)
The Ancients, having taken into consideration the rigorous construction of the human body, elaborated all their works, as especially their holy temples, according to these proportions; for they found here the two principal figures without which no project is possible: the perfection of the circle, the principle of all regular bodies, and the equilateral square. View quote
Luca Pacioli
If the principle is, "Let's not get lethal substances out to the public", the first one you'd go after is tobacco. The next one you'd go after is alcohol. Way down the list you'd get to cocaine, and sort of invisibly low you'd get to marijuana. View quote
Noam Chomsky
The Bush Administration do have moral values. Their moral values are very explicit: shine the boots of the rich and the powerful, kick everybody else in the face, and let your grandchildren pay for it. That simple principle predicts almost everything that's happening. View quote
Noam Chomsky
... it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.' 'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It turns lying into a universal principle. In the Cathedral. View quote
Franz Kafka
The negative principle that no law is free law, is not much known except among lawyers. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
TCP implementations will follow a general principle of robustness: be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others. View quote
Jon Postel
Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. View quote
Immanuel Kant
Act so that the maxim of your act could be made the principle of a universal law. View quote
Immanuel Kant
Do not the Rays of Light which fall upon Bodies, and are reflected or refracted, begin to bend before they arrive at the Bodies; and are they not reflected, refracted, and inflected, by one and the same Principle, acting variously in various Circumstances? View quote
Isaac Newton
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization which destroys what little remains of the wild, the spare, the original, is cutting itself off from its origins and betraying the principle of civilization itself. (Edward Abbey)
We live in a highly competitive society, each of us trying to outdo the other in wealth, in popularity or social prestige, in dress, in scholastic grades or golf scores. [...] One is often tempted to say that conflict, rather than cooperation, is the great governing principle of human life. View quote
S. I. Hayakawa
We ought to cherish the body. Our body's substance is not from an evil principle, as the Manicheans imagine, but from God. And therefore, we ought to cherish the body by the friendship of love, by which we love God. View quote
Thomas Aquinas
For creation is not a change, but that dependence of the created existence on the principle from which it is instituted, and thus is of the genus of relation; whence nothing prohibits it being in the created as in the subject. Creation is thus said to be a kind of change, according to the way of understanding, insofar as our intellect accepts one and the same thing as not existing before and afterwards existing. View quote
Thomas Aquinas
Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government. View quote
Tony Blair