Quotes of: Principle Keyword

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.

Aesop

Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.

Alan Watts

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

Ambrose Bierce

The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle.

Lincoln Steffens

... the best education is self-discipline with good principles through human university.

Uzoma Nnadi

And is it not sects, bodies of definite, uncompromising principles, that lead us into revolutions?

Vladimir Ilich Lenin

The basic principle is I command, and my employees carry it out immediately.

Wang Jianlin

What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s.

L. Neil Smith

Magic works best for me when it aligns with scientific principles.

The Emperor's Soul

emotion is first of all and in principle an accident

The Emotions: Outline of a Theory

Hardly anyone understands the principles behind magic,"scoffed Betony. "It's too difficult.

Back To The Divide

Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.

Eric Bentley

Lead me, follow me, or get the hell out of my way.

Patton Principles

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