Quotes and Sayings About Principles
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Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.
-- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada -
A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.
-- A. J. LieblingSource : Abbott Joseph Liebling (1970). “The Earl of Louisiana”, p.19, LSU Press
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Rather an end in horror, than horror without end. He could not condemn principles he might need to invoke and apply later. The wolf cannot help having been created by God as he is, but we shoot him all the same if we have to. The great player in diplomacy, as in chess, asks the question,Does this improve me?, not look at the possible fringe benefits If you can't have what you like, you must like what you have.
-- A. J. P. Taylor -
True religion, like our founding principles, requires that the rights of the disbeliever be equally acknowledged with those of the believer.
-- A. Powell Davies -
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Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins is an essential covenant to make with the Lord. Faith and repentance precede this ordinance. Confirmation and the gift of the Holy Ghost follow baptism. Acceptance of these first principles and ordinances may obtain for us a remission of our sins and assure our salvation. In the ordinance of the sacrament, we regularly renew this and other covenants, and by complying with our part of the covenant, we receive the Spirit of the Lord to be with us.
-- A. Theodore Tuttle -
The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this, namely, that Parliament thus defined has, under the English constitution, the right to make or unmake any law whatever; and, further, that no person or body is recognised by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament.
-- A. V. DiceySource : "Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution" by A. V. Dicey, LibertyClassics, (pp. 3-4), 1982.
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The principles of logic and mathematics are true universally simply because we never allow them to be anything else. And the reason for this is that we cannot abandon them without contradicting ourselves, without sinning against the rules which govern the use of language, and so making our utterances self-stultifying. In other words, the truths of logic and mathematics are analytic propositions or tautologies.
-- A.J. Ayer -
The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap
-- Aaron Allston -
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You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.
-- Abdul Kalam -
If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
We have declared a bitter war against the principle of democracy and all those who seek to enact it.
-- Abu Musab al-Zarqawi -
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
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When people attempt to rebel against the iron logic of Nature, they come into conflict with the very same principles to which they owe their existence as human beings. Their actions against Nature must lead to their own downfall.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.
-- Adrian Cronauer -
The distinction between right and wrong ("la distinction du bien et du mal", Fr.), is nothing else than their unyielding (or implacable) opposition; thus the moral consciousness is an innate and intimate revelation of the absolute, which goes beyond (or goes pass, or exceed) every empirical data (or given information). It is only on these principles that we will be able to establish ("pourront être édifiées", Fr.) the real basis of morality.
-- African SpirSource : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 60), 1937.
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The first principle from which stems the moral of about all people at all time; it is summarized in this precept: Love thy neighbour as thyself, and: do as you would be done by.
-- African SpirSource : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 38), 1937.
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The basic notion of justice, is that the rights of everybody are equals, in principle. In the rights of others, we have to respect our own rights. It is only in that condition that we can reasonnably require that it be respected by others.
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If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
-- Agatha Christie -
On general principle, I boycott shows that don't employ actors.
-- Aisha Tyler -
The task of saving the earth's environment must and will become the central organizing principle of the post-Cold War world.
-- Al Gore -
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Dr. King's general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.
-- Al Sharpton -
Hitler had a plausible case to argue when he claimed that the Anschluss was only the application of the Wilsonian principle of self-determination.
-- Alan BullockSource : Alan Bullock (1964). “Hitler, a study in tyranny”, Harpercollins College Div
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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
-- Alan Cooper -
I'm more inclined to linger in the science pages of 'The Week' magazine. But my principle obsessions are still watching sitcoms and football.
-- Alan Davies -
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The principle that light can be in two places at the same time is absolutely extraordinary.
-- Alan Davies -
Evolution is an organizing principle and when we call it a theory, we mean it's a theory, we don't mean that it's a belief that someone holds.
-- Alan I. Leshner -
I frankly don't care if you agree with my stand on abortion. I take that stand because no other stand is consistent with decent principles, and no other standard is consistent with the will of God.
-- Alan Keyes -
In the great Declaration of our principles, it didn't say that all men are created equal 'if you so choose.' It said that all are created equal by the power and the will of God, and that we must respect their rights as we respect that will.
-- Alan Keyes -
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The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.
-- Alan Lightman -
You can’t buy that kind of empowerment. To just know that as far as you are aware, you have not got a price; that there is not an amount of money large enough to make you compromise even a tiny bit of principle that, as it turned out, would make no practical difference anyway. I’d advise everyone to do it, otherwise you’re going to end up mastered by money and that’s not a thing you want ruling your life.
-- Alan Moore