Principle Quotes - page 6

Occasionally one speaks... of signals or signal chains. It should be noted that the word signal means the transmission of signs and hence concerns the very principle of causal order. (Hans Reichenbach)
The even larger difference between rich and poor makes the latter even worse off, and this violates the principle of mutual advantage. View quote
John Rawls
The difference principle, for example, requires that the higher expectations of the more advantaged contribute to the prospects of the least advantaged. View quote
John Rawls
George Orwell once wrote: "And it's not a matter of whether the war is not real or if it is. Victory is not possible. The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia but to keep the very structure of society intact." View quote
Michael Moore
Being an art form, verse cannot be "free" in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principle. View quote
William Carlos Williams
That's all very well as an abstract moral principle, Avril, a coffee-table theoretical construct, but there's no denying the sheer gratuitous pleasure to be derived from seeing members of the ruling class in pain and torment. View quote
Irvine Welsh
If it were to be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? The answer would be, An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws - the first growing out of the last . . . . A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s. View quote
L. Neil Smith
Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle. View quote
Epictetus
Islam contains the principle of the umma, i.e. a tendency towards the unification of all Muslims in a single community - religious, cultural and political. Islam is not a nationality, but it is the supranationality of this community. View quote
Alija Izetbegović
Few things in life can be so appalling as the difference between a dry antiseptic statement of a principle by a well spoken man in a quiet office, and what happens to people when that principle is put into practice. (John Kenneth Galbraith)
Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire. View quote
William Godwin
By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. View quote
Claude Adrien Helvétius
Relativity theory forced the abandonment, in principle, of absolute space and absolute time. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Anything that works against you can also work for you once you understand the Principle of Reverse. View quote
Maya Angelou
The very object of an art, the principle of its artifice, is precisely to impart the impression of an ideal state in which the man who reaches it will be capable of spontaneously producing, with no effort of hesitation, a magnificent and wonderfully ordered expression of his nature and our destinies. View quote
Paul Valéry
Poetry is simply literature reduced to the essence of its active principle. It is purged of idols of every kind, of realistic illusions, of any conceivable equivocation between the language of "truth" and the language of "creation." View quote
Paul Valéry
Neither the circle without the line, nor the line without the point, can be artificially produced. It is, therefore, by virtue of the point and the Monad that all things commence to emerge in principle. That which is affected at the periphery, however large it may be, cannot in any way lack the support of the central point. View quote
John Dee
We deserve leaders who stand for principle, who unite us all behind shared values, who cast aside anger for love. That is the standard we should expect from everybody. View quote
Ted Cruz
The simple point which I am concerned to make is that where ultimate values are irreconcilable, clear-cut solutions cannot, in principle, be found. To decide rationally in such situations is to decide in the light of general ideals, the overall pattern of life pursued by a man or a group or a society. View quote
Isaiah Berlin
A person who acquires a holding in accordance with the principle of justice in acquisition is entitled to that holding. (Robert Nozick)
In short, individual freedom of speech leads to a stronger society. But knowing that principle is not enough. You have to know how to put it to use on the Net. View quote
Mike Godwin
I am one of those who believe that there is no permanent home for even a section of the Bantu in the white area of South Africa and the destiny of South Africa depends on this essential point. If the principle of permanent residence for the black man in the area of the white is accepted then it is the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it in this country. View quote
Pieter Willem Botha
The acceptance of vertical differentiation with the built-in principle of self-determination must apply on as many levels as possible. View quote
Pieter Willem Botha
We can never have too much preparation and training. We must be a strong competitor. We must adhere staunchly to the basic principle that anything less than full equality is not enough. If we compromise on that principle our soul is dead. View quote
Ralph Bunche