Principle Quotes - page 2

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum. (Adlai Stevenson II)
No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them. View quote
Bernard Mandeville
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool. View quote
Richard Feynman
Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion. View quote
Scott Adams
Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.Civilization and Ethics, 1949. View quote
Albert Schweitzer
Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things. View quote
Giambattista Vico
In Aristotle the mind, regarded as the principle of life, divides into nutrition, sensation, and faculty of thought, corresponding to the inner most important stages in the succession of vital phenomena. View quote
Wilhelm Wundt
Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education --if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the bird permitted to fly, and the fish to swim, towards the enchanted and divine sources of Helicon --all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers, its beauty, and its coolness. (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection. View quote
Charles Darwin
On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they the Colonies raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome in the height of her glory is not to be compared,a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England. View quote
Daniel Webster
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Liberty, equality - bad principles The only true principle for humanity is justice and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness. View quote
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life. View quote
William Ellery Channing
Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread; otherwise there will be no peace. View quote
Norman Borlaug
One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction. View quote
Karel Čapek
The world is not dialectical -- it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil. View quote
Jean Baudrillard
There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wound, death, and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time. (George S. Patton)
The deepest and most organic death is death in solitude, when even light becomes a principle of death. In such moments you will be severed from life, from love, smiles, friends and even from death. And you will ask yourself if there is anything besides the nothingness of the world and your own nothingness. View quote
Emil Cioran
What magical trick makes us intelligent? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity, not from any single, perfect principle. View quote
Marvin Minsky
Rise above principle and do what's right. View quote
Joseph Heller
Equality is not the empirical claim that all groups of humans are interchangeable; it is the moral principle that individuals should not be judged or constrained by the average properties of their group. View quote
Steven Pinker