Quotes of: Great-principle Keyword

Too often, complaint is not about principled objection on moral grounds, but opportunistic objection on grounds of self-interest. To rectify this, we need to work on mastering the art of complaint.

Julian Baggini

Politics was at once clinical and human, driven by principles and passions that he (the leader) had to master and harness for the good of the whole.

American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

I have always believed in the principle that immediate survival is more important than long-term survival.

Imagining Canadian Literature: The Selected Letters

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

Intellectual Autobiography: Ideas on Literature, Philosophy and Religion

Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry.

Reconstruction in Philosophy

Had you but seen it, I promise you, your high-minded principles would have melted like candle wax. Never would you have wished such beauty away.

Revolution

What separates or unites people is not their language, their laws, their customs, their principles, but the way they hold their knife and fork.

Suite Française

A principle to remember is that saying yes to His directive will always result in advancing the gospel message and a resulting blessing on those to whom God directs it.

The Sifted Generation

Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature, that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so secures tranquility.

Meditations

A basic principle of data processing teaches the folly of trying to maintain independent files in synchonism.

The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.

Molecular Biology of the Gene

Principled hate is a hell of a lot stronger than "Boy, I wish you hadn't mummified me and thrown me into the lake" hate.

Looking for Alaska

When our focus is toward a principle of relatedness and oneness, and away from fragmentation and isolation, health ensues

Space, Time & Medicine

No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them

Sex and Character: An Investigation of Fundamental Principles

That's gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way.

Sputnik Sweetheart

Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same for the poor who have not offended is to give a premium on crime.

Principles of Political Economy

Since evil is nothing positive, there can be no principle of evil. It has no meaning expect in reference to something good.

Philosophy of Science

POLITICS, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Principle of Change #2: Self-awareness is the foundation for change.

Whole New You, A: Six Steps to Ignite Change for Your Best Life

Principle of Change #1: Discontent + Passion Drive Change

Whole New You, A: Six Steps to Ignite Change for Your Best Life

Roy Blunt is another white guy in a suit, and I think the public wants change. There's a good old boys' network out there that's hard to penetrate... and it's not always in the best interest of the party or for conservative principles.

Sarah Steelman