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I spent an important part of my life participating in conflicts. But for me, conflict was not the main principle.
My commitment to gender equality is rooted in the quintessentially American principle of equal justice under law.
The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.
The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.
There are both things in international law: the principle of territorial integrity and right to self-determination.
The manner in which life constructs itself must be dealing with some other principle which we've failed to identify.
Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away.
In principle, if you understood the mechanisms of keeping things repaired, you could keep things going indefinitely.
In principle, junk bonds are basically useful, but they are used excessively and irrationally, notably in takeovers.
To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is.
As abhorrent as some of this content can be, I do think that it gets down to this principle of giving people a voice.
Central to the effective functioning of early capitalism was the fundamental principle of trusting and being trusted.
Net Neutrality - a guiding principle of the Internet since its beginning - means that content is all treated equally.
The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award.
A job is the best cure for poverty, and that's why economic development and job creation has been my principle focus.
I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.
People say, 'I'm only suing for the principle of the thing,' and I reply that I can't give you principle - only money.
I essay a negative or a positive character depending on whether it's a principle role and how much it drives the movie.
Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.
Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it.
Real heroes are those who face death for a principle - say, to save the lives of others - without any promise of reward.
Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.
It is a fundamental principle of democracy that citizens obey the law or incur whatever penalty applies to its breaking.
The more you build your life on principle and less on personality - yours or others - the straighter will be your course.
My father was a man of principle who found his principles confirmed in the unremitting failure which they brought on him.
Everything in the world is conducted by gradual process. This seems to be the great principle of harmony in the universe.
In the Navy, the captain doesn't leave the bridge when the ship is in distress. It's a pretty basic leadership principle.
A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge.
In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.
We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.
It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.
There's a very collaborative, collective attitude. That's a very female principle. We try to nurture that aspect of the band.
I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.
Science is a principle and a process of seeking truth. Truth cannot be purchased, and thus, truth cannot be altered by money.
As we continue to step up our investment in education, we must not sidestep our commitment to the principle of local control.
I have been offered obscene amounts to do commercials and stage shows abroad, but as a matter of principle, I am against them.
To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
I think that if you make a strong statement of principle, even if the folks disagree with you, people will respect you for it.
I am, on principle, opposed to war and in favor of peace because I regard peace as a positive good and war as a positive evil.
There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.
Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
As a matter of principle, we are opposed to destabilising a stable government, and I believe in the norms of healthy democracy.
My guiding principle is that prosperity can be shared. We can create wealth together. The global economy is not a zero-sum game.
The uniqueness of executive clemency lies in the president's power to act without weighing guilt, innocence and legal principle.
Any email that contains the words 'important' or 'urgent' never are, and annoy me to the point of not replying out of principle.
I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.