Principle Quotes

The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother.
Christian Morgenstern

Good, Mother, Choose

The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; it's love - that one principle.
Tom Shadyac

Love, Society, Technology

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

There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike.
Lakhdar Brahimi

Two, Again, Situations

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

Now, there is no way to say how long some projects take, that's our principle.
Christo

The principle of acting in good faith is at the heart of decent work.
Richard Eyre

Faith, Work, Good

Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has on several occasions talked about transparency as an absolute principle. I don't personally believe that.
Bill Keller

Occasions, Talked, Absolute

It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.
James F. Cooper

Nature, Good, Evil

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

Rise above principle and do what's right.
Joseph Heller

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 guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.
Walter Ulbricht

Everyone, Rather, Few

That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.
William Blackstone

Wrong, English, King

The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism.
Lajos Kossuth

Evil, Spirit, Europe

A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.
Andrew O'Hagan

Good, Common, Struggling

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

On general principle, I boycott shows that don't employ actors.
Aisha Tyler

General, Shows, Boycott

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

No matter what side of the spectrum you're on, you like to see your team fighting for the principle.
Bob McDonnell

Fighting, Team, Matter

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

My guiding principle is that prosperity can be shared. We can create wealth together. The global economy is not a zero-sum game.
Julia Gillard

Game, Together, Wealth

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

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

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

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

IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle.
Joseph Lancaster

Difficult, Speak, Write

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

Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise, of health.
James Thomson

Health, Exercise, Bliss

One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.
Karel Capek

Personal, Whether, Knows

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