Quotes of: Basic-principles Keyword

Inquisitor Lorsen's thin lip curled. "There is truly nothing in you of what separates man from animal, is there? You are bereft of conscience. An utter absence of morality. You have no principle beyond the selfish." Cosca's face hardened as he leaned...

Red Country

Music escapes ideological characterization. Just as there are some social scientists who believe that what cannot be measured does not truly exist, and some psychologists used to believe that consciousness does not exist because it cannot be observed...

Theodore Dalrymple

Oh, those grumblers! They all take principles as motives and dare not follow their desires.

Crime and Punishment

An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

The Essential Thomas Paine

When I need to identify rebels, I look for men with principles

God Emperor of Dune

I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.

Gustave Courbet

If I spelled out the Principles of Faith I would be barking on the moon.

The Spice Box of Earth

In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.

Linnaeus' Philosophia Botanica

Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as a governing principle.

Writings And Speeches

If you can find a way that your principles are actually the strategically smartest thing to do, you've kind of figured it out.

Oscar Isaac

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

Plato

I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz.

Pat Metheny

We should not live by Darwinian principles. But Darwin explains how we got here.

Richard Dawkins

Who really want to succeed follow the principles of his mentor with determination and action.

Kishore Bansal

Everyone knows the principles of Beautiful life but, only few of them have opportunities to follow them.

Kartik Mehta

The United Nations should become a proactive agent in the dissemination of democratic principles.

Michelle Bachelet

Let me tell you what justice is. Justice is the law. And that man's feeble attempt to lay down the principles of deceny.

Morgan Freeman

The principle of self defense, even involving weapons and bloodshed, has never been condemned, even by Gandhi.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I'm the kind of person that believes there's a part of your voting that has to be purely on principle, and there's a part that has to be on strategy.

Michael Moore

As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way.

Stephen Ambrose

I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.

Stanley Baldwin