There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.
Pythagoras

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
Benjamin Disraeli

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
Benjamin Disraeli

A precedent embalms a principle.
Benjamin Disraeli

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.
John Ruskin

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
William James

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.
Scott Adams

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
George Eliot

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
George Eliot

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
Will Durant

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
Carl Sandburg

Money motivates neither the best people, nor the best in people. It can move the body and influence the mind, but it cannot touch the heart or move the spirit; that is reserved for belief, principle, and morality.
Dee Hock

Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.
Thomas Szasz

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.
Jean Piaget

Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.
Jose Marti

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
Thomas Hardy

It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.
Grover Cleveland

Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle.
Aleister Crowley

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.
Albert Pike