Principles Quotes - Page 38

Either this is logical and true, or else the principles on which economic science is based are invalid.

If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.

Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.

God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not conceive Himself, if, in order to do it, He required to know His own principle.

The fundamental principle of our constitution ... enjoins the sense of command, duty that the will of the majority shall prevail.

If we care about universal principles such as freedom, democracy and the rule of law, we cannot leave them to the care of market forces; we must establish some other institutions to safeguard them.

Whenever there is a conflict between universal principles and self-interest, self-interest is likely to prevail.

The principle is so perfectly general that no particular application of it is possible.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.

It was necessary for the Son to disappear as an outward authority, in order that He might reappear as an inward principle of life. Our salvation is no longer God manifested in a Christ without us, but as a " Christ within us, the hope of glory.

The traditional Jeffersonian principle of religious freedom was so broadly democratic that it included the right to have no religion at all - it gave to the individual the right to worship any God he chose or no god.

I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of ones education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent.

The first principle of aid is respect.

All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.

Mind exists as a Principle in the universe, just as electricity exists as a principle.

In studying mathematics or simply using a mathematical principle, if we get the wrong answer in sort of algebraic equation, we do not suddenly feel that there is an anti-mathematical principle that is luring us into the wrong answers.

The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.

Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty.

Tied to the value of the person is the principle of servanthood. We value what we freely serve.

The failure-dichotomy principle: failure is good. Failure is not an option. Balance those in your brain.

Faith is such a principle of power. God works by power, but this power is usually exercised in response to our faith.

Principle is OK up to a certain point, but principle doesn't do any good if you lose.

At the higher stage of communism, when the productive forces will be greatly developed and the principle "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" will be practised, personal interests will be acknowledged still more and more personal needs will be satisfied.

Adam Smith, and other able writers to whom I have alluded, not having viewed correctly the principles of rent, have, it appears to me, overlooked many important truths, which can only be discovered after the subject of rent is thoroughly understood.

It affords a violent prejudice against almost every science, that no prudent man, however sure of his principles, dares prophesy concerning any event, or foretell the remote consequences of things.