Quotes about principles
principles trauma foreign-policy
The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions. Henry A. Kissinger
principles purpose matter
If we are one in purpose, spirit, principle and faith, then it doesn't really matter if we are always of the same opinion. Opinions change and can be easily altered by time, experience, and circumstance. But principles, purposes, spirituality, and faith are enduring values that can bind us as one despite disagreement or dispute. M. Russell Ballard
principles ethics social
The principles of ethics come from our own nature as social, reasoning beings. Peter Singer
principles creatures complexes
One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all. Plotinus
principles kind pleasure
When I talk about the pleasure principle, I don't say there is only one kind of pleasure, there are many kinds of pleasure. Some pleasure is difficult. It should be for the reader as well as the writer. But it has to be pleasure. Martin Amis
principles married born
When a Forsyte was engaged, married, or born, the Forsytes were present; when a Forsyte diedbut no Forsyte had as yet died; they did not die; death being contrary to their principles, they took precautions against it, the instinctive precautions of highly vitalised persons who resent encroachments on their property. John Galsworthy
principles all-things
I have loved the principle of beauty in all things. John Keats
principles unattractive merit
The central principle of investment is to go contrary to the general opinion, on the grounds that if everyone agreed about its merits, the investment is inevitably too dear and therefore unattractive. John Maynard Keynes
principles
Base thy life on principle, not on rules. John Lancaster Spalding
principles subliminal provinces
I must remain always, both in principle + actively, interested in everything. Taking all of knowledge as my province. Susan Sontag
principles morality nations
Money, not morality, constitutes the principle of commercial nations. Thomas Jefferson
principles consequence
My principle is to do whatever is right, and leave consequences to him who has the disposal of them.
principles constitution form
The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution.
principles decent humans
Stand up for your principles, but be a decent human being while you're doing it. Rick Santorum
principles teach formulas
Teach principles not formulas. Richard P. Feynman
principles physics mathematics
I accept no principles of physics which are not also accepted in mathematics. Rene Descartes
principles economic social
The principles applied in economic processes are general social principles. Thomas Sowell
principles judgmental violation
To say that being non-judgmental is better than being judgmental is itself a judgment, and therefore a violation of principle.
principles oblivion fortune
But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle. [Lat., Sed profecto Fortuna in omni re dominatur; ea res cunctas ex lubidine magis, quam ex vero, celebrat, obscuratque.] Sallust
principles behavior consequence
Consequences are governed by principles, and behavior is governed by values; therefore, value principles! Stephen Covey
principles negative harmony
Our behavior is governed by principles. Living in harmony with them brings positive consequences; violating them brings negative consequences.
principles behavior consequence
While values drive behaviors, principles govern consequences.
principles behavior determine
Values determine behavior; Principles determine the consequences of behavior.
principles values
When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are.
principles guidelines endure
Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.
principles
There's great peace in surrendering to principles Stefan Molyneux
principles dominance majority
It must be pointed out, however, that strictly speaking it is incorrect to talk of the dominance of the pleasure principle over the course of mental processes. If such a dominance existed, the immense majority of our mental processes would have to be accompanied by pleasure or to lead to pleasure, whereas universal experience completely contradicts any such conclusion. Sigmund Freud
principles surrender should
The principle was, death should not be entered like some snug harbor. It should be an unambiguous refusal to surrender. Thomas Keneally
principles
In principle, I am against principles. Tristan Tzara
principles easy
It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than it is to apply them. Winston Churchill
principles knows
When you know principles that can motivate you, you will then know principles that can motivate others. Conversely, when you know principles that can motivate others, you will then know principles that can motivate you. W. Clement Stone
principles slavery politics
There must be no compromise with slavery - none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience. William Lloyd Garrison
principles morality ethics
Principles do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest. Walter Savage Landor