Quotes of: Basic-principles Keyword

No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty.

Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Thomas Jefferson

The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.

Omar Bongo

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

As an actor, what you really want to do is communicate with people - this is my aim, my principle aim.

Pierfrancesco Favino

I don't consult polls to tell me what my principles are or what our policies should be.

Paul Ryan

I am a person who is inclined to define relations between individuals based on principles.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity.

Robert Evans

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

Richard P. Feynman

I am a radical in thought (and principle) and a conservative in method (and conduct).

Rutherford B. Hayes

Politics works on the principle that an idiot who knows more idiots is an intelligent.

Thiruman Archunan

I gave up worrying about the principles of fiction writing when I realized that there weren't any.

Teri Louise Kelly

Spiritual maturity is not defined by how well one applies Biblical principles to “suppress sin”.

John Paul Warren

In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.

Kofi Annan

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.

Marcus Aurelius

Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.

Meg Greenfield

The most important principle of environment is that you are not the only element.

Mahavira

I believe that free-market principles will solve our healthcare problems.

Rick Scott

Never let the principle of what you believe in become more important than the person.

Shannon L. Alder

The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.

Edward Gibbon

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam