Principles Quotes - Page 47

Being an art form, verse cannot be "free" in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principle.

A principle isn't a principle until it costs you something.

Success in management and success in sport are derived from the same basic principles.

The ecological principle in agriculture is to connect the genius of the place, to fit the farming to the farm.

One of the important principles I live by is the idea that you have to contemplate yourself as surrounded by the conditions you intend to produce.

Let your thoughts be ruled by principle, and then live up to your thoughts.

...at this stage in the advancement of women the best policy for them is not to talk much about the abstract principles of women'srights but to do good work in any job they get, better work if possible than their male colleagues.

Never betray His principles for any reason whatsoever, and take great care not to spoil God's affairs by too much haste in them.

Let us admit that most of us writers feel an essential aversion to politics. By taking such a position, however, we accept the perverted principle of specialization, according to which some are paid to write about the horrors of the world and human responsibility and others to deal with those horrors and bear the human responsibility for them.

Work is important to me. I want to do things for principle, not just for the sake of doing them.

It is not the principled partisan, however obnoxious he may seem to his opponents, who degrades our public debate, but the preening, self-styled statesman who elevates compromise to a first principle.

Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission.

We ought not to schismatize on either men or measures. Principles alone can justify that.

We are now trusting to those who are against us in position and principle, to fashion to their own form the minds and affections of our youth... This canker is eating on the vitals of our existence, and if not arrested at once, will be beyond remedy.

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

It is a principle that the right to a thing gives a right to the means without which it could not be used, that is to say, that the means follow their end.

A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of the society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sin and suffering.

The Right of all members of society to form their own beliefs and communicate them freely to others must be regarded as an essential principle of a democratically organized society.

Agnosticism is not properly described as a "negative" creed, nor indeed as a creed of any kind, except in so far as it expresses absolute faith in the validity of a principle which is as much ethical as intellectual.

One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesn't work on this mirror principle - you don't have an exact replica on the left of what you have on the right. It just doesn't work that way.

Vanity is not half a bad principle, if it will but stick to legitimate business.

Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. And this principle of inertia truly is what is radically evil.

The best principles in our lives were those which we heard from our mothers through our ears.

The Pearl Principle - no inner irritation, no pearl.

If you believe that some day it's going to happen, some day it probably will happen. You just have to make sure you're there when it's happening, and ideally you're at the front of the parade, and the principle beneficiary of when it happens.