Principles Quotes - Page 27

We must have faith in the people of this country and faith in our principles.

The first principle of freedom is the right to go to hell in your own handbasket.

Life without prejudice, were it ever to be tried, would soon reveal itself to be a life without principle.

The particular aspect of history which both attracts and benefits its readers is the examination of causes and the capacity, which is the reward of this study, to decide in each case the best policy to follow. Now in all political situations we must understand that the principle factor which makes for success or failure is the form of a state's constitution: it is from this source, as if from a fountainhead, that all designs and plans of action not only originate but reach their fulfillment.

By building a simple system, with just a few guiding principles, eBay was open to organic growth.

The Sermon on the Mount is not a set of principles to be obeyed apart from identification with Jesus Christ. The Sermon on the Mount is a statement of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is getting his way with us.

For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.

The first principle of modern cultures may be their connectedness. Culture is like wind and wind knows no boundary or center. Once there is a center, wind becomes a whirlwind.

To really understand something you've got to reduce it to its principles.

Sir John Templeton: "My ethical principle in the first place was: 'Where could I use my talents that God gave me to help the most people?'"

Personal participation is the universal principle of knowing.

Reengineering posits a radical new principle: that the design of work must be based not on hierarchical management and the specialization of labor but on end-to-end processes and the creation of value for the customer.

A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge.

The world is a very dangerous place. But the world is not too dangerous of a place for the United States of America provided we act according to our principles, provided we act intelligently.

When we see social relationships controlled everywhere by the principles which Jesus illustrated in life -- trust, love, mercy, and altruism -- then we shall know that the kingdom of God is here.

All universal moral principles are idle fancies.

Within ten days thou wilt seem a god to those to whom thou art now a beast and an ape, if thou wilt return to thy principles and the worship of reason.

Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.

The republic stands for truth and honour. For all that is noblest in our race. By truth and honour, principle and sacrifice alone will Ireland be free.

I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius.

One thing is always wrong-always: to cause suffering in others for the purpose of gratifying one's own pleasures; that is everlastingly wrong.

"Because there has been no one to stop me" has been one of the principles of my life.

One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.

Gay and lesbian relationships operate on essentially the same principles as heterosexual relationships

[I]t is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue.