Principles Quotes

I am a registered Democrat who is determined to return my party to the proletarian principles of the Franklin D. Roosevelt era.

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

All universal moral principles are idle fancies.

It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own.

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.

I appeal to all Britishers to answer this call to arms for the defence of all the principles that we Englishmen have been the first to proclaim in the world.

Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite.

We in the West should stand by our core principles.

For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.

In teaching, I wanted to offer a general pharmacology course based on chemical principles, biochemical classification and mathematical modelling. In the event I achieved neither of my ambitions.

I do transcendental meditation, which is, I suppose, derived from Vedic or Ayurvedic principles, which is sort of Hindu principles.

We love your adherence to democratic principles.

You have to maintain your principles but have a broader appeal.

I don't believe you outsource your convictions and principles to people.

Success in management and success in sport are derived from the same basic principles.

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

Just because people are in authority, if it doesn't seem right, don't do it. If it violates your own principles, don't do it.

Action based only on principles isn't always good even if it feels good.

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

I don't compromise my principles for politics.

Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.

In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles.

In my opinion, we should search for a completely different flying machine, based on other flying principles.

Business principles are only as good as the practices that back them up.

Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

I have always supported measures and principles and not men.

President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.

From a policy standpoint, the Judeo-Christian principles are important.

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity.

I watched Reagan turn around the country by lowering taxes and controlling spending, and I'm applying the same principles.

This oxidation of hydrogen in stages seems to be one of the basic principles of biological oxidation.

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

The Independent or Congregational theory includes two principles; first, that the governing and executive power in the Church is in the brotherhood; and secondly, that the Church organization is complete in each worshipping assembly, which is independent of every other.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.

By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market.

The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

I consider no man honest who does not observe towards other nations the principles which he desires to be observed towards his own: and therefore I will not interfere in your domestic questions.

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.

The principles behind explaining and educating the product or the elected official is similar, even though the actual execution of it is very, very different.

I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the People's Charter were in the habit of assembling.

Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles.

I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz.

It's all very well to have principles, but when it comes to money you have to be flexible.

I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.

Now I call myself a bleeding heart libertarian. Because I do believe in the principles of Libertarianism as an ideal - because I'm an idealist.

The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change.

In stating the principles which regulate exchangeable value and price, we should carefully distinguish between those variations which belong to the commodity itself, and those which are occasioned by a variation in the medium in which value is estimated, or price expressed.

I don't consult polls to tell me what my principles are or what our policies should be.

We will not try to replace our founding principles, we will reapply our founding principles.

You've got to be known for what you're running on, what principles.

I believe that free-market principles will solve our healthcare problems.

The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.

But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be diverted from its original ideals, principles and purposes.

We should be exploring consciousness at the neural level and higher, where the arrow of causal analysis points up toward such principles as emergence and self-organization.

One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may.

I was born and raised a Christian, and I still adhere to those principles.

The first issue of The Register was printed in London, and gave a glowing account of the province that was to be - its climate, its resources, the sound principles on which it was founded.

The principles upon which a safety lamp might be constructed I stated to several persons long before Sir Humphrey Davy came into this part of the country.

That decision to commit your life to certain principles and a certain narrative, if I wrote a paper on that, I know I'd find inconsistencies.

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

I have principles and I am not going to be forced to compromise them.

The mongers brought them together upon a mutual surrender of their principles.

The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic.

The money in the schools overpowers the principles of the purpose.

Thus, the Archivist must display at all times scrupulous independence and a devotion to the laws and principles which govern the responsibilities of the office.

There is no question but that the laws and principles which Solon laid down both foreshadowed and prepared the way for all republics of later ages, including our own.

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.

Fixed principles of truth are the only safeguard for youth.

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

The major studios don't differ very much from one another as they all operate under essentially the same principles and pressure.