Principle Quotes - page 7

It is the great glory as well as the great threat of science that everything which is in principle possible can be done if the intention to do it is sufficiently resolute. (Peter Medawar)
We follow ideas and not men, and rebel against this habit of embodying a principle in a man. View quote
Errico Malatesta
Lately I have come to believe that the principle difference between Heaven and Hell is the company you keep there.... View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as governing principle. View quote
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
What comfort there is in a cheerful spirit! how the heart leaps up to meet a sunshiny face, a merry tongue, an even temper, and a heart which either naturally, or, what is better, from conscientious principle, has learned to take all things on their bright side, believing that the Giver of life being all-perfect Love, the best offering we can make to Him is to enjoy to the full what He sends of good, and bear what He allows of evil! View quote
Dinah Craik
Economic analysis is the first principle of Marxism. Professors who were genuine leftists would have challenged the entire economics-driven machinery of American academe the wasteful multidepartmental structure, the divisive pedantry of overspecialization, the cronyism and sycophancy in recruitment and promotion, the boondoggling ostentation of pointless conferences, the exploitation of graduate students and part-time teachers, the subservience of faculty to overpaid administrators, the mediocrity and folly of the ruling cliques of the Modern Language Association. View quote
Camille Paglia
I tremble for our world, where, in the smallest ways, we find it impossible, as Marshall Hodgson enjoined, to find room for the other in our minds. If we cannot accommodate a viewpoint in a friend without resorting to unkindness, how can we hope to heal the terrible problems of our planet? I no longer think that any principle or opinion is worth anything if it makes you unkind or intolerant. View quote
Karen Armstrong
The peoples' revolution .... will arrange its revolutionary organisation from the bottom up and from the periphery to the centre, in keeping with the principle of liberty. View quote
Mikhail Bakunin
For my part, I love to stand foot to foot with an honest foeman. To open warfare, bold and true hearts raise no objection but the ground of quarrel; it is covert enmity which we have most cause to fear, and best reason to loathe. That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass - deadly to the incautious wayfarer. View quote
Charles Spurgeon
Competition principle does not mean a competitive edge, comrades. View quote
Todor Zhivkov
It is a noteworthy fact that not one of the women to whom I have spoken so far believes in abortion as a practice; but it is principle for which they are standing. They also believe that the complete abolition of the abortion law will shortly do away with abortions, as nothing else will. (Margaret Sanger)
The ascription of an unconscious intentional phenomenon to a system implies that the phenomenon is in principle accessible to consciousness. View quote
John Searle
Principle #1: Avoid dangerous people and dangerous places. Principle #2: Do not defend your property. Principle #3: Respond immediately and escape. View quote
Sam Harris
Plato said that virtue has no master. If a person does not honor this principle and rejoice in it, but is purchasable for money, he creates many masters for himself. View quote
Apollonius of Tyana
Ethics are so annoying. I avoid them on principle. View quote
Darby Conley
He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Foremost is the principle that the purpose of consumer research is to understand the customer's needs and wishes, and thus design product and service that will provide better living for him in the future. A second principle is that no one can guess the future loss of business from a dissatisfied customer... View quote
W. Edwards Deming
What counts now is not just what we are against, but what we are for. Who leads us is less important than what leads us - what convictions, what courage, what faith - win or lose. A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that God's creative principle works in you. View quote
Paramahansa Yogananda
Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle. View quote
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships. (Stephen Covey)
Society is organized on the principle that any individual who possesses certain social characteristics has a moral right to expect that others will value and treat him in an appropriate way. View quote
Erving Goffman
The ecological principle of unity in diversity grades into a richly mediated social principle; hence my use of the term social ecology. View quote
Murray Bookchin
What the local politicians actually meant was that they hoped to claim the land in the name of the public and then make the usual profits privatizing it. There was a principle at stake. They had to ensure their friends and not outsiders got the benefit. View quote
Michael Moorcock
The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract. View quote
Walter Lippmann