Principles Quotes - Page 22

In the most civilized and progressive countries freedom of discussion is recognized as a fundamental principle.

If you want spiritual life you have to pay the price. The price is the four regulative principles.

The sculptor must search with passionate intensity for the underlying principle of the organisation of mass and tension - the meaning of gesture and the structure of rhythm.

The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

Great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant.

When you aren't sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you end up believing yourself; that's the basic principle of every faith.

True religion, like our founding principles, requires that the rights of the disbeliever be equally acknowledged with those of the believer.

One principle problem of educating software engineers is that they will not use a new method until they believe it works and, more importantly, that they will not believe the method will work until they see it for themselves.

Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.

In a physical contest on the field of battle it is allowable to use tactics and strategy, to retreat as well as advance, to have recourse to a ruse as well as open attack; but in matters of principle there can be no tactics, there is one straight forward course to follow and that course must be found and followed without swerving to the end.

We deserve leaders who stand for principal, who unite us all behind shared values, who cast aside anger for love. That is the standard we should expect from everybody.

The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of that activity by reference to principles.

The idea of God is the type and foundation of the principle of authority and absolutism, which it is our task to destroy or at least to subordinate wherever it manifests itself.

The overriding need is "to develop a new Planetary Humanism" that will seek to preserve human rights and enhance human freedom and dignity and will emphasize our commitment "to humanity as a whole." The underlying ethical principle "is the need to respect the dignity and worth of all persons in the world community." Thinkers as diverse as Peter Singer and Hans Küng also emphasize the need for a new global ethic beyond nationalistic, racial, religious, and ethnic chauvinism.

Even matter called inorganic, believed to be dead, responds to irritants and gives unmistakable evidence of a living principle within. Everything that exists, organic or inorganic, animated or inert, is susceptible to stimulus from the outside.

A society based on the freedom to choose is better than a society based on the principles of socialism, communism and coercion.

The sanctity proceeds out of the belief... that ancient principle where God says "before you were formed in the womb I knew you," and so for the first time in my public life I sought to stand with great compassion for the sanctity of life.

The greatest management principle in the world is: 'the things that get rewarded and appreciated get done.'

Lean forward into your life. Begin each day as if it were on purpose.

It is never difficult to see images – when the principle of the image is embedded in the soul.

If I simply live the principles that appear to be truth for me, I will touch the lives of those I am destined to touch.

For not all things are practicable on identical principles

It is a disgrace to let ignorance and vanity do more with us than prudence and principle.

When they first built the University of California at Irvine they just put the buildings in. They did not put any sidewalks, they just planted grass. The next year, they came back and put the sidewalks where the trails were in the grass. Perl is just that kind of language. It is not designed from first principles. Perl is those sidewalks in the grass.