Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
We shouldn't consider smaller countries insignificant. I abide by this principle.
I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.
Liberty is a principle; its community is its security; exclusiveness is its doom.
Patriotism is the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.
We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles
Language is the leading principle which unites or separates the tribes of mankind.
Structure is not just a means to a solution. It is also a principle and a passion.
It's not that I'm not willing to compromise. But I won't compromise on principles.
Just remember, strength and courage. If you stand on principle, you'll never lose.
Secession is a deeply American principle. This country was born through secession.
For me the core principles of privacy online are transparency, choice and control.
The Upanishads do not reveal the life of any teacher, but simply teach principles.
Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
There is tension between the values of modern society and the principles of Islam.
The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.
Compromise for compromise sake is never good, unless it is grounded in principles.
Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
Great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant.
But a wild democracy . . . too often disdains the essential principles of justice.
His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.
We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles.
General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree to its leaves.
Students deserve our care and concern on the grounds of principle, not personality.
People come up to me and tell me they support me because I never left my principles.
...from the same principles, I now demonstrate the frame of the System of the World.
One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
The question I should have asked is not what is the rule, but what is the principle.
Tis a principle of war that when you can use the lightning, 'tis better than cannon.
The principle rule of interpreting Scripture is that Scripture interprets Scripture.
When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are.
I am against any pact with the Nationalists because I am against pacts in principle.
Ahimsa is one of the world's great principles, which no power on earth can wipe out.
the distinction between 'prejudice' and 'principle' is itself a matter of prejudice.
Everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger.
Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men
One of the greatest of all principles is that men can do what they think they can do.
This is not a time to back away from the principles that this country was founded on.
There will be no war, but in the pursuit of principle no stone will be left standing.
Marquise de Merteuil: I've distilled every thing to one single principle: win or die.
Never compromise your principles, even if it leads to difficulties in the short term.
If we abide by the principles taught by the Bible, our country will go on prospering.
I am a radical in thought (and principle) and a conservative in method (and conduct).
God is not a respecter of persons but a respecter of principles that are in his word.
"Because there has been no one to stop me" has been one of the principles of my life.
It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity.
Doctinaires are the vultures of principle. They feed upon principle after it is dead.
Everything is useful which contributes to fix the principles and practices of virtue.
Donald Trump has taken the Peter Principle to unprecedented heights. Or is it depths?