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Image of Friedrich August von Hayek
There is nothing in the basic principles of liberalism to make it a stationary creed; there are no hard-and-fast rules fixed once and for all. ... Probably nothing has done so much harm to the liberal cause as the wooden insistence of some liberals on certain rules of thumb, above all the principle of laissez faire.
- Friedrich August von Hayek
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Image of Alexander Hamilton
In disquisitions of every kind there are certain primary truths, or first principles, upon which all subsequent reasoning must depend.
- Alexander Hamilton
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Image of Jon Hamm
In this ridiculously polarized, obstructionist world, the operating principle should be, Let's get something done. Not, Let's freeze everything.
- Jon Hamm
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Image of Jane Austen
His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.
- Jane Austen
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Image of William Hazlitt
It is a false principle that because we are entirely occupied with ourselves, we must equally occupy the thoughts of others. The contrary inference is the fair one.
- William Hazlitt
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Image of Marcus Aurelius
Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature, that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so secures tranquility.
- Marcus Aurelius
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Image of Jurgen Habermas
[Critical social science attempts] to determine when theoretical statements grasp invariant regularities of social action as such and when they express ideologically frozen relations of dependence that can in principle be transformed.
- Jurgen Habermas
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Image of Lord Acton
False principles, which correspond with the bad as well as with the just aspirations of mankind, are a normal and necessary element in the social life of nations.
- Lord Acton
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Image of Friedrich August von Hayek
There exists no third principle for the organisation of the economics process which can be rationally chosen to achieve any desirable ends, in addition to either a functioning market in which nobody can conclusively determine how well-off particular groups or individuals will be, or a central direction where a group organised for power determines it.
- Friedrich August von Hayek
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Image of Alexander Hamilton
Money is, with propriety, considered as the vital principle of the body politic; as that which sustains its life and motion, and enables it to perform its most essential functions.
- Alexander Hamilton
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Image of Christopher Hitchens
Principles have a way of enduring, as do the few irreducible individuals who maintain allegiance to them.
- Christopher Hitchens
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Image of Christopher Hitchens
Its a matter of principle. If Jews born in Brooklyn have a right to a state in Palestine then Palestinians born in Jerusalem have a right to a state in Palestine.
- Christopher Hitchens
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Image of Robert Hass
If you ask me if I have this or that principle, tell me what its consequences are, and then I'll tell you whether I have that principle or not.
- Robert Hass
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Image of Napoleon Hill
Constancy of purpose is the first principle of success.
- Napoleon Hill
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Image of Ernest Holmes
It is necessary for us to understand that the only Active Principle is Spirit.
- Ernest Holmes
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Image of Alexander Hamilton
Opinion, whether well or ill-founded, is the governing principle of human affairs
- Alexander Hamilton
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Image of David Hume
The great subverter of Pyrrhonism or the excessive principles of scepticism is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life.
- David Hume
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Image of Thomas Jefferson
The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Image of Garrison Keillor
It's better to be burnished with use than rusty with principle.
- Garrison Keillor
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Image of Thomas Jefferson
Principle will, in... most... cases open the way for us to correct conclusion.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Image of Thomas Jefferson
Money, not morality, constitutes the principle of commercial nations.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Image of John Maynard Keynes
The treasury could fill old bottles with banknotes and bury them..and leave it to private enterprises on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again.
- John Maynard Keynes
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Image of Thomas Jefferson
Were I to be the founder of a new sect, I would call them Apiarians, and, after the example of the bee, advise them to extract the honey of every sect. My fundamental principle would be ... that we are to be saved by our good works which are within our power, and not by our faith which is not within our power.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Image of John Maynard Keynes
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
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Image of William James
The pragmatist turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes and origins. He turns toward concreteness and adequacy, towards facts, towards action, and towards power.
- William James
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Image of Samuel Johnson
Discord generally operates in little things; it is inflamed ... by contrariety of taste oftener than principles.
- Samuel Johnson
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Image of Thomas Jefferson
My principle is to do whatever is right, and leave consequences to him who has the disposal of them.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Image of William James
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
- William James
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Image of Mikhail Bakunin
We must spread our principles, not with words but with deeds, for this is the most popular, the most potent, and the most irresistible form of propaganda.
- Mikhail Bakunin
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Image of Robert Kiyosaki
As the owner of the company, I'm always focusing on how my company can do more for less. And it's one of the principles of the world.
- Robert Kiyosaki
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Image of Lawrence Lessig
We ought to be respecting the principle of equality.
- Lawrence Lessig
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Image of Mike Krzyzewski
Always get back to your core principles.
- Mike Krzyzewski
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Image of Abraham Lincoln
I must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself.
- Abraham Lincoln
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Image of D. H. Lawrence
The only principle I can see in this life, is that one must forfeit the less for the greater.
- D. H. Lawrence
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Image of Abraham Lincoln
The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.
- Abraham Lincoln
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Image of Allen W. Wood
Kantian ethical theory distinguishes three levels: First, that of a fundamental principle (the categorical imperative, formulated in three main ways in Kant's Groundwork); second, a set of duties, not deduced from but derived from this principle, by way of its interpretation or specification, its application to the general conditions of human life - which Kant does in the Doctrine of virtue, the second main part of the Metaphysics of Morals; and then finally an act of judgment, through which these duties are applied to particular cases.
- Allen W. Wood
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Image of Walter Savage Landor
Principles do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest.
- Walter Savage Landor
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Image of Abraham Lincoln
If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.
- Abraham Lincoln
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Image of Robert Kiyosaki
Doing more with less, is a crucial principle to learn; especially if you're going to be in business in this rapidly changing world.
- Robert Kiyosaki
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Image of Alan Lightman
The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.
- Alan Lightman
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Image of James Russell Lowell
A marciful Providunce fashioned us holler O' purpose thet we might our principles swaller.
- James Russell Lowell
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Image of John Quincy Adams
Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union. A dissolution, at least temporary, of the Union, as now constituted, would now be certainly necessary. The Union might then be reorganized on the fundamental principle of emancipation.
- John Quincy Adams
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Image of Nelson Mandela
You mustn't compromise your principles, but you mustn't humiliate the opposition. No one is more dangerous than one who is humiliated.
- Nelson Mandela
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Image of Norm MacDonald
They that are virtuous from principle may receive confidence in every capacity; but they that are so from custom or habit, are capable of trust only in matters of ordinary and settled occurrence.
- Norm MacDonald
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Image of Marshall McLuhan
Ads push the principle of noise all the way to the plateau of persuasion. They are quite in accord with the procedures of brainwashing.
- Marshall McLuhan
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Image of Herbert Marcuse
The range of socially permissible and desirable satisfaction is greatly enlarged, but through this satisfaction, the Pleasure Principle is reduced deprived of the claims which are irreconcilable with the established society. Pleasure, thus adjusted, generates submission.
- Herbert Marcuse
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Image of Nelson Mandela
For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.
- Nelson Mandela
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