Principles Quotes - Page 82

There is something very pleasing about the principles of science and the rules of math, because they are so inevitable and so harmonious - in the abstract, anyway.

I watched Reagan turn around the country by lowering taxes and controlling spending, and I'm applying the same principles.

The Santa Claus principle liquidates itself.

A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle.

The first principle of economic symmetry: building the economic power to consume simultaneously with the industrial power to produce.

"Rituals" don't make you righteous, it's uprightness: living up to moral principles and ethical principles, and submitting to universal law established by God.

I want the principles of a timeless muse, I want to eradicate my negative views.

False principles, which correspond with the bad as well as with the just aspirations of mankind, are a normal and necessary element in the social life of nations.

When you are in love' hypocrisy won over principle.

Language is one of the fundamental principles of human understanding. It is the way we interact with each other and how we grasp the world we live in. Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

We have lost faith in the formal powers of the mind, not, as some suppose, because our universe is too difficult to grasp, but because we lack the inner principle of order.

If an economy is to sustain progress, it must satisfy the basic principles of ecology. If it does not, it will decline and eventually collapse. There is no middle ground

True love is impossible for those to whom principles mean little.

But in spite of the obvious effectiveness of mathematics in physics, I have never heard of a good a prioriargument that the world must be organised to mathematical principles.

The principle, that should be a fundamental principle in our democracy, the principle of "one person, one vote," says that the vote of every American should count equally. And if it does, Hillary Clinton should be the president of the United States.

We ought to be respecting the principle of equality.

The value of "one person, one vote," the value of equality, is a value that was given to us more than 50 years ago as a central part of our constitutional tradition. So, under that principle, we ought to be applying the same standard today that I would have said we should have applied a year ago.

Under the principle of equality, we should get as close to respecting equal votes of every citizen as we can, given our constitutional structure. And I think if we did that, then the will of the people would not be overturned.

Principles don't mean anything until they cost you something.

the distinction between 'prejudice' and 'principle' is itself a matter of prejudice.

It's not that easy to quit. When you look back in the American system it is very rare that people quit on issues of principle.

We must convince and empower people to adopt the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity as their guiding principle.

For venture capital, one of the original principles is people you want to invest in are people who've done it before with someone else's money. Not people who've just came out of business school.

This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here.

Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable... they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle of delight!