Principle Quotes

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

I am committed to the principle that violence is never justified as a means of ameliorating a grievance.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.

Work is important to me. I want to do things for principle, not just for the sake of doing them.

You have to have that organizational principle behind the song.

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.

As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way.

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

It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity.

The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.

Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.

It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world could be ascribed to the elegant principle of natural selection.

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.

What gets me excited is the original principle.

The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.

A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge.

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

The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment.

The vast majority of politicians think they are functioning on high principle.

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.

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

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.

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

The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility.

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

Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it.

The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights.

I am a radical in thought (and principle) and a conservative in method (and conduct).

Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right.

Rise above principle and do what's right.

In principle the great religions of the world do not differ as much as they appear to.

When a fellow says, 'It ain't the money but the principle of the thing,' it's the money.

A convention was drawn up on June 17, 1925, in which the principle of supervision, as opposed to that of simple propaganda, was recognized, thanks to the efforts of the labour members, of whom I was one.

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

I think that if you make a strong statement of principle, even if the folks disagree with you, people will respect you for it.

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.

Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.

The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.

Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common welfare.

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

The organizing principle, which according to an eternal law creates the different essential organs of the body, and animates them, is not itself seated in one particular organ.

Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.

Mr. Darwin contributes some striking and ingenious instances of the way in which the principle partially affects the chain, or rather network of life, even to the total obliteration of certain meshes.

If you ask me to compromise on principle, I will get out the veto pen.

We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography.

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.

The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.

I get angry at a principle, not a person.

I submit, on the other hand, most respectfully, that the Constitution not merely does not affirm that principle, but, on the contrary, altogether excludes it.

The movement of the emitters of the spectral lines may be deduced on the basis of the Doppler principle.

The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.

I spent an important part of my life participating in conflicts. But for me, conflict was not the main principle.

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

Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of quantum uncertainty, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.