Principle Quotes

There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say. Martin Buber
Life Me Man Conflict Thought Three Action Say Between Principle Principles Being Mean Origin Speech
A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion. Sai Baba
Man World Illusion Will Too Otherwise Back Solid Must He House Principle Becomes Built Sink Up Same Swallowed Ground Foundations Last Soft
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. Thomas Jefferson
War Generation World Own Pay Every Incumbent Would Principle Debts Goes Which Acted Wars Save
Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply a refusal to deny the obvious. Unfortunately, we live in a world in which the obvious is overlooked as a matter of principle. Sam Harris
World Matter Live Philosophy Atheism Simply Obvious Principle Overlooked Deny Refusal Unfortunately Which View Even
It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge. Grover Cleveland
Better Run High Principle Than Committing Standing Defeated
Love is higher than the Highest. Love is greater than the Greatest. Yea, it is in a certain sense greater than God; while yet, in the highest sense of all, God is Love, and Love is God. Love being the highest principle is the virtue of all virtues; from whence they flow forth. Jakob Bohme
Love God Love Is Sense Virtue Virtues Higher Highest Principle Greater Greatest God Love Than Whence Being While Forth Certain Flow
Social Security is based on a principle. It's based on the principle that you care about other people. You care whether the widow across town, a disabled widow, is going to be able to have food to eat. Noam Chomsky
Food You People Care Other Security Able Eat About Disabled Town Principle Going Whether Social Across Social Security Based Widow
I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle. Andrew Carnegie
Strong Men Strong Men Compromise Compromised Shall Argue Know Principle Principles Greater Serve
Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future. Benjamin Disraeli
Future Respect Progress Preparation Conservatism Having Principle Makes Redress Antiquity Offers Shrinks Prescription Present Rejected
I will form good habits and become their slave. And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls it will be done, for each scroll contains a principle which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one which will bring me closer to success. Og Mandino
Life Success Good Me Will My Life Drive Become Difficult Bad Bad Habit Feat Habit Habits Through Contains Principle How Accomplish Replace Closer Done Form Which Scroll Each Bring Slave Good Habits
What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they? Orson F. Whitney
Wisdom History Wealth Honor Power Past Babylon Possessions Ancient Ancient Times Eminence Empires Powers Principle Without Answer Said Overthrow Greece Persia Times Where Rome Mightiest Successive Four Universal
You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate. Pope John Paul II
Life Love Today God Day Loyalty You Honesty Grace Words Will Before Solemn Promise Constitute Entire Entire Life Only Divine Observe Anniversary Vows Principle Want Formulate Your Help
The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual's right to it is sacred - regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex or any other accident or incident of birth. Susan B. Anthony
Class Sex Accident Other Birth Caste Color Individual Sacred Principle Self-Government Any Impunity Regardless Cannot Race Incident Right Violated
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. Thomas Paine
Good Ought Virtue Temper Principle Always Moderately Moderation Vice Thing
It is not a liberty of circumstance, conceded to us alone, that we wish; it is the adoption absolute of the principle that no man, born red, black or white, can be the property of his fellow man. Toussaint Louverture
Alone Property Man Liberty Black Wish White Circumstance Black Or White Born Adoption Absolute Red Conceded Fellow Principle Fellow Man His Us
Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects. Andrew Johnson
Constitution Legal Broad Our Citizens More Only Gives Outside Instrument Principle Within Limits Private Subjects Than Authority Us Much Functions
The people currently in charge have forgotten the first principle of an open society, namely that we may be wrong and that there has to be free discussion. That it's possible to be opposed to the policies without being unpatriotic. George Soros
People Free First Society Possible Charge Unpatriotic Open Wrong Open Society Namely Policies Principle Without Opposed Discussion May Currently Forgotten Being
It is among the evils of slavery that it taints the very sources of moral principle. It establishes false estimates of virtue and vice: for what can be more false and heartless than this doctrine which makes the first and holiest rights of humanity to depend upon the color of the skin? John Quincy Adams
Rights Humanity First Depend Skin Virtue Evils Moral More Color Doctrine Principle Makes Sources False Very Than Heartless Vice Estimates Which Among Slavery
Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work. Mao Zedong
Work Woman Pay Every Take Equal Equal Pay Principle Equal Work Enable Labour Front Place Who Her
Same with anyone who's been flying for years and loves it still... we're part of a world we deeply love. Just as musicians feel about scores and melodies, dancers about the steps and flow of music, so we're one with the principle of flight, the magic of being aloft in the wind! Richard Bach
Love Music Musicians World Wind Dancers Flying Melodies Magic About Part Feel Steps Principle Still Been Years Scores Same Just Being Anyone Loves Flight Deeply Flow
Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Lying Must Principle Inexorably Method His Anyone Proclaimed Choose Who Violence
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection. Charles Darwin
Natural Preserved Slight Variation Selection Term Principle Which Natural Selection Useful Each
Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed. DeForest Soaries
Life Voting Principle Governed Breathes Act Foundational Consent
The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason. Immanuel Kant
Good Good And Evil Evil Those Latter Object Objects Only Also Practical Principle According Former Meant Reason Therefore Shunned Necessarily Desired
Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion. Scott Adams
Religion Better Nothing Unlikely Defines Willingness Dating Pursuit Principle Than Irrational Behind Things Humans Phenomenally
I stand by the principle of honesty, fair play, and trustworthiness. T. S. Kalyanaraman
Honesty Fair Fair Play Principle Stand Play
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