Principles Quotes

All atheists must examine the Non Aggression Principle.

~ Stefan Molyneux

Oh, those grumblers! They all take principles as motives and dare not follow their desires.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If I had a thousand sons, the first humane principle I would teach them should be to forswear thin potations and to addict themselves to sack.

~ William Shakespeare

People who put principles before people are people who hate people. They don’t much care about how well it works, just about how right it is … they may even like it better if it inflicts enough pain.

~ John Barnes

If you held to principle so passionately, so inflexibly, indifferent in the particulars of circumstance - the full range of what human beings, with all their flaws and foibles, might endure or create - if you enthroned principle above even reason, weren't you then abdicating the responsibilities of a thinking person?

~ Sonia Sotomayor

The task of a truly revolutionary party is not to declare that it is impossible to renounce all compromises, but to be able, through all compromises, when they are unavoidable, to remain true to its principles, to its class, to its revolutionary purpose, to its task of paving the way for revolution and educating the mass of the people for victory in the revolution.

~ Vladimir Lenin

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Drizzt felt the despair most keenly. For all the trials of his hard life, the drow had held faith for ultimate justice. He had believed, though he never dared to admit it, that his unyielding faith in his precious principles would bring him the reward her deserved. Now, there was this, a struggle that could only end in death, where one victory brought only more conflict.

~ R.a. Salvatore

Sir, I would rather be right than to be President.

~ Henry Clay

... the best education is self-discipline with good principles through human university.

~ Uzoma Nnadi

A principle is not merely a fundamental truth, but principles must serve as the very first source of every decision we make along the road to success.

~ Richie Norton

While it is never safe to affirm that the future of Physical Science has no marvels in store even more astonishing than those of the past, it seems probable that most of the grand underlying principles have been firmly established and that further advances are to be sought chiefly in the rigorous application of these principles to all the phenomena which come under our notice.

~ Robert S. Mulliken

It is the bad people who need to have principles to restrain them.

~ T.h. White

Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles.

~ G.k. Chesterton

If you want to check someone's principles, give him authority .. Then have a seat & watch

~ أحمد عمارة

But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.

~ Thomas Jefferson

I believe that we must align our actions with our highest principles. No matter the outcome, we will not have failed if we act from our best intentions.”“The road to hell is paved with good intentions, Captain,” Chakotay said with equal certainty.“So is the road to peace,” Cambridge observed.

~ Kirsten Beyer

It is generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles and design.

~ Edmund Burke

His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.

~ Oscar Wilde

Are we truly acting from principle and not from interest? Surely it is at least convenient that for us the two coincide.

~ John Colville

Sir, I had rather be right than to be President.

~ Henry Clay

Miracles are exceptions principles are the rules.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The respect and protection of woman and of maternity should be raised to the position of an inalienable social duty and should become one of the principles of human morality.

~ Maria Montessori

The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.

~ Henry Kissinger

It's never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the international law of war and it violates all principles of morality.

~ Alan Dershowitz

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

~ Jawaharlal Nehru

We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!

~ William Lloyd Garrison

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

~ Abraham Lincoln

We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake. To preserve civilisation, we must deal scientifically with the brute element, using only genuine biological principles.

~ H. P. Lovecraft

This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.

~ Friedrich August Von Hayek

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

~ Xun Kuang

The U.N. guards the vital principles entrenched in its charter, notably the sovereign equality of states and the inadmissibility of interference in their internal affairs. It is precisely because the U.N. is the chief guardian of both these sacrosanct principles that it alone is allowed to approve derogations from them.

~ Shashi Tharoor

Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.

~ Mercy Otis Warren

Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century.

~ Tran Duc Luong

Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.

~ Eric Bentley

Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.

~ Russell M. Nelson

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

~ Charles R. Swindoll

Architecture is the beginning of something because it's - if you're not involved in first principles, if you're not involved in the absolute, the beginning of that generative process, it's cake decoration.

~ Thom Mayne

The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.

~ Mercy Otis Warren

Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation.

~ Jim Gerlach