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Principle Quotes
The basic principle which I believe has contributed more than any other to the building of our business... is the ownership of our company by the people employed in it. - James E Casey Quotes
Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence. - Michael Polanyi Quotes
And Ive always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people. - Morris West Quotes
I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this. - Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
This dreadful situation, for which our government have made no adequate provision, has alarmed every man of principle and property in New England. - Henry Knox Quotes
The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men. - John Randolph Quotes
The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over. - Germaine Greer Quotes
Yeah, all the characters in those days were abstract because that was part of the principle that I was working under, that you wanted abstract things. - Jim Henson Quotes
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. - Richard Owen Quotes
I would point out that Japans proposal at the Versailles Peace Conference on the principle of racial equality was rejected by delegates such as those from Britain and the United States. - Hideki Tojo Quotes
Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature. - Joseph Butler Quotes
The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition. - John Ruskin Quotes
So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations. - Chris Patten Quotes
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings. - Simone Weil Quotes
Ive always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people. - Morris West Quotes
Country people do not behave as if they think life is short; they live on the principle that it is long, and savor variations of the kind best appreciated if most days are the same. - Edward Hoagland Quotes
The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a days time they will have turned it into a Hell. - Jeremy Bentham Quotes
The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other. - Sigmund Freud Quotes
When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it. - John Cusack Quotes
In the laws of the land, she has no rights; in government she has no voice. And in spite of another principle recognized in this Republic, namely, that taxation without representation is tyranny, she is taxed without being represented. - Ernestine Rose Quotes
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. - William J Brennan Quotes
God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not conceive Himself, if, in order to do it, He required to know His own principle. - Giacomo Casanova Quotes
Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age. - Matthew Simpson Quotes
It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. - James F Cooper Quotes
I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate. - Caleb Cushing Quotes
Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the strengthening of the State, was really and in principle the initiation of the States destruction. - Benjamin Tucker Quotes
To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue. - Walter Scott Quotes
It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards. - Chris Van Hollen Quotes
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it. - Arnold J Toynbee Quotes
Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. - Claud Adrian Helvetius Quotes
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