Principle Quotes - page 3

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness. (Anthony de Mello)
Not only do I pray for it, on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly foresee that nothing but the rooting out of slavery can perpetuate the existence of our union, by consolidating it in a common bond of principle. View quote
George Washington
Subjectivism is not an absolute principle; it is a necessary but not sufficient condition for sound methodology. View quote
Murray Rothbard
Metaphysical principles are tempting shortcuts but not reliable guides. There are good reasons why things often seem to happen for reasons-and also reasons why that's not a bedrock principle. View quote
Sean M. Carroll
Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life. View quote
Jonathan Edwards (theologian)
That the king can do no wrong, is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution. View quote
William Blackstone
Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery. View quote
John Henry Newman
The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother. View quote
Christian Morgenstern
The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual. View quote
Edward Bellamy
The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency. (Herbert Read)
To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle. View quote
Confucius
Thus by such victory, not by machines but in oppositions to the principle to the principles of machines, has the freedom of states been preserved by the cunning of architects. View quote
Vitruvius
Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, 'If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I insist that there is nothing sacred in the life of an invader, and there is no valid principle of human society that forbids the invaded to protect themselves in whatever way they can. View quote
Benjamin Tucker
I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified. View quote
Benjamin Tucker
No man is fit to be a Senator... unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle. View quote
Henry Fountain Ashurst
The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. View quote
Charles Dickens
Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved." Mature love follows the principle: "I am loved because I love." Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you. View quote
Erich Fromm
It has always been the particular forte of German leadership to grant wide scope to the self-dependence of subordinate commanders - to allot them tasks which leave the method of execution to the discretion of the individual. From time immemorial - certainly since the elder Moltke's day - this principle has distinguished Germany's military leadership from that of other armies. View quote
Erich von Manstein
It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men. (Eric Hoffer)
The range of socially permissible and desirable satisfaction is greatly enlarged, but through this satisfaction, the Pleasure Principle is reduced deprived of the claims which are irreconcilable with the established society. Pleasure, thus adjusted, generates submission. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
Great nations need organizing principles, and 'Don't do stupid stuff' is not an organizing principle. View quote
Hillary Clinton
I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard
I have a higher and greater standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie but I won't. View quote
Mark Twain