Principle Quotes - page 13

I extend that to the abortion issue, I extend that to the so-called gay rights issue, I think this is a freedom principle and consistent with the analysis in the economic area as well. (William Weld)
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. View quote
Corazon Aquino
To have dragons one must have change; that is the first principle of dragon lore. View quote
Loren Eiseley
Today, local economies are being destroyed by the "pluralistic," displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in a locality. The global economy is built on the principle that one place can be exploited, even destroyed, for the sake of another place. View quote
Wendell Berry
Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men. View quote
Bede Griffiths
The Church as a divine society possess an internal principle of life which is capable of assimilating the most diverse materials and imprinting her own image upon them. View quote
Christopher Dawson
No man was ever a good soldier but the man who goes into the battle determined to conquer, or not to come back from the battle field (cheers). No other principle makes a good soldier. View quote
Daniel O'Connell
The principle of my political life .... is, that all ameliorations and improvements in political institutions can be obtained by persevering in a perfectly peaceable and legal course, and cannot be obtained by forcible means, or if they could be got by forcible means, such means create more evils than they cure, and leave the country worse than they found it. View quote
Daniel O'Connell
This principle is old, but true as fate,- Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate. View quote
Thomas Dekker
What is magnificent about humans is when they decide to turn and stand. If they respond with non-violence on principle and hold their ground, they are really magnificent. View quote
James Cromwell
A culture of discipline is not a principle of business, it is a principle of greatness. (James C. Collins)
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. View quote
Wilfrid Laurier
I could not comprehend the justice of that law, or that religion, which upholds or recognizes the principle of slavery. View quote
Solomon Northup
I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody) View quote
Elizabeth Peters
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. View quote
William Petty
The principle of laissez-faire may be safely trusted to in some things but in many more it is wholly inapplicable; and to appeal to it on all occasions savors more of the policy of a parrot than of a statesman or a philosopher. View quote
John Ramsay McCulloch
The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics. View quote
Ferdinand de Saussure
The principle of the design - the harmony, rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fashion design. View quote
Venus Williams
Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful and sensual. Red is matter, brutal and heavy and always the colour which must be fought and vanquished by the other two. View quote
Franz Marc
Yes, a general principle that comes out of research behind Good to Eat is that there are no world religions that have acted to decrease the potential for the nutritional well-being of their followers. View quote
Marvin Harris
Income and inheritance taxes imply the denial of private property, and in that are different in principle from all other taxes. The government says to the citizen: "Your earnings are not exclusively your own; we have a claim on them, and our claim precedes yours; we will allow you to keep some of it, because we recognize your need, not your right; but whatever we grant you for yourself is for us to decide. (Frank Chodorov)
The will of God is not something you add to your life. It's a course you choose. You either line yourself up with the Son of God...or you capitulate to the principle which governs the rest of the world. View quote
Elisabeth Elliot
There can be no intelligent control of the lead danger in industry unless it is based on the principle of keeping the air clear from dust and fumes. View quote
Alice Hamilton
A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality. View quote
Andrew O'Hagan
In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil. View quote
Anna Brownell Jameson