Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

Great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant.

Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.

Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

We must not only speak about forgiveness and reconciliation, we must act on these principles.

If you’re willing to sacrifice all principles, all sanity and all morality to get rid of Trump, what exactly is the point of getting rid of Trump?

The most important quality of leadership is intellectual honesty. The reality principle – the ability to see the world as it really is, not as you wish it were.

Love is the only principle which makes life tolerable.

Anybody who changes his principle depending on whom he is dealing with is not fit to lead.

Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature.

Our true dignity consists — in thought. Thence we must derive our elevation, not from space or duration. Let us endeavor then to think well; this is the principle of morals.

All human actions are equivalent… and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Very much of what we call the progress of today consists in getting rid of false ideas, false conceptions of things, and in taking a point of view that enables us to see the principles, ideas and things in right relation to each other.

Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, … And the cause of this lies with the primary premises/principles.

The First Amendment isn’t about free thought and free opinion and free belief. The First Amendment is about free exercise: the carrying into practice of religious principles and beliefs and convictions.

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

The moral justification of capitalism does not lie in the altruist claim that it represents the best way to achieve ‘the common good.’ It is true that capitalism does — if that catch-phrase has any meaning — but this is merely a secondary consequence. The moral justification for capitalism lies in the fact that it is the only system consonant with man’s rational nature, that it protects man’s survival qua man, and that its ruling principle is: justice

Protection is not a principle but an expedient

The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.

This is why the anti-discrimination principle being enforced is important. Because it won’t stop if some of the underlying biases aren’t challenged and surfaced. And that in and of itself creates backlash and denial. This is what I mean when I say better is hard.

It is certainly true that principles cannot be more securely founded than on experience and consciously clear thinking.

For now, decisions are upon us and we cannot afford delay. We cannot mistake absolutism for principle or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate.

It is the business of little minds to shrink.

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.

Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not.

When you think about the abolition of slavery for example, for the ruling class with the rich white people owning plantations and states, and things like that, slavery was to their benefit. To oppose it didn’t make any sense at all on a rational basis. But on a rights basis, on a principle basis, it made obvious, overwhelming sense.

Legislation to apply the principle of equal pay for equal work without discrimination because of sex is a matter of simple justice

God should be the object of all our desires, the end of all our actions, the principle of all our affections, and the governing power of our whole souls.

I think white gay people feel cheated because they were born, in principle, in a society in which they were supposed to be safe. The anomaly of their sexuality puts them in danger, unexpectedly.

Man, who preys both on the vegetable and animal species, is himself a prey to neither. He too possesses the reproductive principle far beyond the degree requisite for the bare continuance of his species. What becomes of the surplus of human life to which this principle is competent?

The most basic of conservative principles is that if you reward bad behavior you get more of it.

I didn’t change the Constitution; the equality principle was there from the start. I just was an advocate for seeing its full realization.

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

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.