Principles Quotes - Page 43

When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.

Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite.

I am greatly pleased with the public, authentic isolation in which we two, you and I, now find ourselves. It is wholly in accord with our attitude and our principles.

I am committed to the principle that violence is never justified as a means of ameliorating a grievance.

The underlying principles of manners- respect, fairness, and congeniality.

If you want to succeed in business in any capacity - employee, manager, or owner - you must have a solid, comprehensive understanding of what business principles actually are and how they actually work.

Friendship is the grand fundamental principle of Mormonism

There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it is founded on expediency, and is inhuman; it is without rectitude, without the continuity and the force that can be found only in a moral principle.

The principle of compassion is that which converts disillusionment into a participatory companionship. This is the basic love, the charity, that turns a critic into a living human being who has something to give to - as well as to demand of - the world.

I believe that this is the key, the principle itself is the key to conservatism. Because in many ways if you do not have a principled base you do not have policy and if you do not have policy in many ways you do not have an ideology.

My mother was the source from which I derived the guiding principles of my life.

The form of government which you admire, when its principles are pure is admirable indeed. It is productive of every Thing which is great and excellent among men. But its principles are as easily destroyed as human nature is corrupted. Such a government is only to be supported by pure religion or Austere morals.

The organizing principle, which according to an eternal law creates the different essential organs of the body, and animates them, is not itself seated in one particular organ.

The more the specific feelings of being under obligation range themselves under a supreme principle of human dependence the clearer and more fertile will be the realization of the concept, indispensable to all true culture, of service; from the service of God down to the simple social relationship as between employer and employee.

I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.

It is the business of economists, not to tell us what to do, but show why what we are doing anyway is in accord with proper principles.

To totalitarianism, an opponent is by definition subversive; democracy treats subversives as mere opponents for fear of betraying its principles.

Now ... the basic principle of modern mathematics is to achieve a complete fusion [of] 'geometric' and 'analytic' ideas.

I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse and in a republican government more than in any other.

This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by finding ways to encourage legislators to subordinate ambition to principle.

It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.

In the polling booth narrow self interest wins out over lofty principles.

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.

To be "here and now," in principle, is just for once. And then you have to repeat that.

This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, least I should be accounted an extravagant freak and so prejudice my Readers against all those things which were the main designe of the book.