Principle Quotes

The United Nations, whose membership comprises almost all the states in the world, is founded on the principle of the equal worth of every human being.
Kofi Annan

Human, Worth, Almost

Israel has an important principle: It is only Israel that is responsible for our security.
Yitzhak Rabin

Important, Security, Israel

In Africa, listening is a guiding principle. It's a principle that's been lost in the constant chatter of the Western world, where no one seems to have the time or even the desire to listen to anyone else.
Henning Mankell

Time, Lost, Else

What gets me excited is the original principle.
Heston Blumenthal

Excited, Original

Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed.
DeForest Soaries

Life, Voting, Act

In a way then, the Divine Principle, this new revelation, is the documentary of my life. It is my own life experience. The Divine Principle is in me, and I am in the Divine Principle.
Sun Myung Moon

Life, Experience, Divine

This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess.
Terence

Life, Valuable, Consider

When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.
Kenneth L. Pike

Nature, God, Truth

The people currently in charge have forgotten the first principle of an open society, namely that we may be wrong and that there has to be free discussion. That it's possible to be opposed to the policies without being unpatriotic.
George Soros

Society, May, Free

The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
Charles de Secondat

Peace, Time, Good

Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.
Wendell Phillips

Life, Great, Men

Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.
Felix Frankfurter

Single, Question, Anybody

An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
Wendell Berry

Cannot, Security, Economy

Islam is in principle egalitarian, and has always had problems with power.
Mary Douglas

Power, Islam, Problems

The basic principle which I believe has contributed more than any other to the building of our business as it is today, is the ownership of our company by the people employed in it.
James E. Casey

Business, Today, Company

Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.
Larry Elder

Makes, Less, Behavior

We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II, before the Nuremberg trials were held and the principle of war crimes was stated.
George Wald

War, Before, Trials

And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming to act as representatives or masters of the entire people within a given area.
Benjamin Tucker

State, Act, Individual

I didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was on the dole most of the time.
Alex Kapranos

Music, Time, Put

The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular.
Rudolf Arnheim

Nature, Time, Same

For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it.
Martin Van Buren

Country, Desire, High

I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate.
Caleb Cushing

After, Reason, House

The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man - that is to say, the strongest and cleverest - is likely to get the best woman, in the sense of the most beautiful person.
Lafcadio Hearn

Great, Best, Society

Anyone who really studies Catholicism deeply is aware of the mystical nature of our faith. Even references to Christ's mystical body has connections to that principle.
Dennis Kucinich

Faith, Nature, Body

A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography, as Faulkner did, or you can dwell on a particular period. It provides the same framework.
E. L. Doctorow

Work, Time, Same

We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market principle, a principle of equality, of charity, of let's-take-care-of-one-another. That's the creative challenge.
Jerry Brown

Family, Power, Equality

To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.
Jose Bergamin

God, Wisdom, Light

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.
Jacques Barzun

Business, Stop, Appeal

We are not making this demand for the sake of a principle, but in the interests of the proletarian class.
Clara Zetkin

Making, Class, Interests

Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.
Angela Carter

Person, Ambition, Himself

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