Browsing Topic Best Principles Quotes

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

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.

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift.

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?

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.

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.

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

Love is the only principle which makes life tolerable.

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

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

It’s not crazy to think we can create a world in which humanitarian principles replace soulless economics as the ordering principle for our civilization. What’s genuinely insane is to think humanity will survive another hundred years if we do not.

Presence always wins out over principles.

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 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.

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

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.

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

Who stands firm? Only the one for whom the final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, his virtue, but who is ready to sacrifice all these, when in faith and sole allegiance to God he is called to obedient and responsible action: the responsible person, whose life will be nothing but an answer to God’s question and call.

The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.

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.

I think that when you look at our founding principles, it was based on America as a nation committed to universal human rights and a nation that was wary of foreign entanglements and foreign alliances that did not keep us safe or promote our interests.

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 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

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’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.

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.

This is an eternal and fundamental principle, inherent in all things, in every system of philosophy, in every religion, and in every science. There is no getting away from the law of love.

It is the business of little minds to shrink.