Top Principles Quotes Collection

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Image of Jeremiah Wright
Price above Principle makes you a Prostitute.
- Jeremiah Wright
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Image of Ginger Rogers
If I've learned any one lesson from life, it's this: If you don't stand for something, you will stand for anything.
- Ginger Rogers
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Image of Robert J. Sawyer
General principles should not be based on exceptional cases.
- Robert J. Sawyer
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Image of Julius Evola
My principles are only those that, before the French Revolution, every well-born person considered sane and normal.
- Julius Evola
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Image of Tristan Tzara
In principle, I am against principles.
- Tristan Tzara
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Image of Haile Selassie
Place principle above all else.
- Haile Selassie
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Image of William J. Brennan
The genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and gone, but in the adaptability of its great principles to cope with current problems and current needs.
- William J. Brennan
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Image of Claudia Schiffer
It's not that I'm against nudity. I'm German, I'm very open, in Germany they lay in the park naked. It's just the principle.
- Claudia Schiffer
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Image of Jane Addams
The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.
- Jane Addams
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Image of Darby Conley
Ethics are so annoying. I avoid them on principle.
- Darby Conley
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Image of Mark Shields
The organizing principle of the United States defensive foreign policy had been opposition to the Soviet Union. There is no more Soviet Union.
- Mark Shields
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Image of Mark Steyn
The most basic of conservative principles is that if you reward bad behavior you get more of it.
- Mark Steyn
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Image of Julian Bond
You must place interest in principle above interest on principal.
- Julian Bond
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Image of Eric Metaxas
It's so easy to become a grumbler, someone who condemns and carps at everything on principle and sees an ulterior motive behind it.
- Eric Metaxas
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Image of Ashley Montagu
... the main principle by which human beings must guide the future course of their development is love.
- Ashley Montagu
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Image of Rick Santorum
Stand up for your principles, but be a decent human being while you're doing it.
- Rick Santorum
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Image of Erving Goffman
Society is organized on the principle that any individual who possesses certain social characteristics has a moral right to expect that others will value and treat him in an appropriate way.
- Erving Goffman
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Image of Dave Van Ronk
Sometimes you have to forget your principles and do what’s right.
- Dave Van Ronk
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Image of Clay Shirky
The Shirky Principle declares that complex solutions, like a company, or an industry, can become so dedicated to the problem they are the solution to, that often they inadvertently perpetuate the problem.
- Clay Shirky
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Image of George Packer
Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away.
- George Packer
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Image of Ed Parker
Principles of motion take precedence over sequence of motion.
- Ed Parker
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Image of Patrick Süskind
He had preserved the best part of her and made it his own: the principle of her scent.
- Patrick Süskind
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Image of Jon Postel
TCP implementations will follow a general principle of robustness: be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.
- Jon Postel
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Image of Phillis Wheatley
In every human Beast, God has implanted a Principle, which we call Love of Freedom; it is impatient of Oppression, and pants for Deliverance.
- Phillis Wheatley
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Image of William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
Rules of property ought to be generally known, and not to be left upon loose notes, which rather serve to confound principles, than to confirm them.
- William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
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Image of George Arthur French
There is nothing in the way of amelioration of the conditions of life, of politics, of social and ethical matters, that may not be affected through the skilful application of those principles of advertising that, in business, have proved to be so wonderfully effective.
- George Arthur French
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Image of Protagoras
There are intelligible principles inherent in the matter of every phenomenon; because matter is essentially the sum of all the seemings that it has for any and all persons.
- Protagoras
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Image of Thornton T. Munger
If you are animated by right principles, and are fully awakened to the true dignity of life, the subject of amusements may be left to settle itself.
- Thornton T. Munger
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Image of Dick Cheney
Principle is OK up to a certain point, but principle doesn't do any good if you lose.
- Dick Cheney
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Image of George Horace Lorimer
Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
- George Horace Lorimer
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Image of Henry Edward Manning
Every duty, even the least duty, involves the whole principle of obedience.
- Henry Edward Manning
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Image of Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
The universe shows us the life of God, or rather it is in itself the life of God. We behold in it his permanent action, the scene upon which his power is exercised, and in which all his attributes are reflected. God is not out of the universe any more than the universe is out of God. God is the principle, the universe is the consequence, but a necessary consequence, without which the principle would be inert, unfruitful, impossible to conceive.
- Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
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Image of Rachel Field
You know the public is more easily swayed by persons than by principles.
- Rachel Field
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Image of Peter J. Daniels
You must accept that you can change and that a pattern of principles adhered to and used repeatedly will not only direct your life, but change it permanently.
- Peter J. Daniels
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Image of Lucretia Mott
Let our lives be in accordiance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles
- Lucretia Mott
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Image of Gustave de Molinari
Either this is logical and true, or else the principles on which economic science is based are invalid.
- Gustave de Molinari
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Image of David Trimble
I had read an early profile of [Tony] Blair by Frank Millar in which he said that Blair was very keen on the 'consent principle'.
- David Trimble
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Image of Bion of Borysthenes
Bion insisted on the principle that "The property of friends is common."
- Bion of Borysthenes
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Image of James Webb Young
Particular bits of knowledge are nothing, because they are made up of what Dr. Robert Hutchins once called rapidly aging facts. Principles and method are everything.
- James Webb Young
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Image of Judy Chicago
In the beginning, the feminine principle was seen as the fundamental cosmic force. All ancient peoples believed that the world was created by a female Diety.
- Judy Chicago
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Image of James Prescott Joule
My object has been, first to discover correct principles and then to suggest their practical development.
- James Prescott Joule
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Image of Anthony Kennedy
There's a time for debate and a time for consensus. There's a time for advocacy and time for first principles.
- Anthony Kennedy
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Image of Marlo Morgan
If I simply live the principles that appear to be truth for me, I will touch the lives of those I am destined to touch.
- Marlo Morgan
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Image of Charles Koch
I don't have all the answers. I have a lot of questions. And I have some basic principles.
- Charles Koch
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Image of Hillary Clinton
I have been very consistent over the course of my entire life. I have always fought for the same values and principles.
- Hillary Clinton
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Image of Max Delbruck
If you're too sloppy, then you never get reproducible results, then you never get reproducible results, and then you never can draw any conclusions; but if you are just a little sloppy, then when you see something startling, you nail it down. So I called it the "Principle of Limited Sloppiness".
- Max Delbruck
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Image of Henry Clay
All legislation is founded upon the principle of mutual concession.
- Henry Clay
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Image of Giuseppe Mazzini
Great revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bayonets, and are achieved first in the moral, and afterwards in the material sphere.
- Giuseppe Mazzini
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Image of Frances Ridley Havergal
Faithfulness to principle is only proved by faithfulness in detail.
- Frances Ridley Havergal
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Image of Scott Gessler
I've governed from a consistent set of principles
- Scott Gessler
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