Principles Quotes - Page 87

The degree to which fear now becomes an organizing principle of society is enormous compared to what it was like in the past.

Tintoretto attempted to fill the line of Michelangelo with color, without tracing its principle.

We have always found that, if the principles were right, the area over which they were affected did not matter. Size is only a matter of the multiplication table.

No man is fit to be a Senator...unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle.

If you're familiar with a principle you don't have to be familiar with all of its applications.

I am half-surprised to find that as I go on I get more and more confirmed in the old advanced Liberal principles, economic, social, and political, with which I entered Parliament 30 years ago.

Unfair in practice is not the same thing as wrong in principle, but sometimes it has to do.

Personally I do not believe in a national agency devoted only to the negro blind because in spirit and principle I am against all segregation, and the blind already have difficulties enough without being cramped and harassed by social barriers.

I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.

That's gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way.

There are always principles to be depended upon in this matter of taxation ... Amidst the inconsistent, the bewildering representations offered, a certain number must be in accordance with true principles.

There is no escape from the vast imbalances in international trade and finance. They will be corrected, sooner or later, by the inexorable principles that govern human action.

In the end, all critics should be guided by this one principle: Is this piece of work [TV show, movie, play, concert, album, restaurant] succeeding at what it set out to do?

As the lesser is always found within the greater, so this principle holds true with regards to time and the eternal.

I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.

I probably have mellowed down a bit. But when it comes to principles, I still have to make a stand.

The problem of how to characterise the properties that would trivialise the principle is one of the hardest problems concerning the principle of identity of indiscernibles and one the problems to which least attention has been paid of.

The huge majority of philosophers seem to think that including impure properties in the range of the quantifiers of the principle would make the principle trivial. I have argued that it does not.

By arguing that the bundle theory does not entail and is not committed in any way to the principle of identity of indiscernibles, I have thereby defended the bundle theory from a traditional objection to it.

For bundles of universals can be in more than one place at the same time; so a bundle can have more than one instance; so there can be numerically distinct particulars sharing the same universals; so the principle of identity of indiscernibles is false.

What the media is doing is, again, just going after the Democrats and the Republicans and making it about politics instead of principles.

I would like a practical president, but I would like to be able to have his practicality based on principles, and not just who - I mean the room with.

We cannot fling ourselves into the blank future; we can only call up images from the past. This being so, the important principle follows, that how many images we have largely depends on how much past we have.

Once a paper admits any principle of censorship for survival, the we-don't-want-to-do-it-but-we-don't-want-to-lose-the-printer kind of censorship, it jeopardizes the integrity of its editorial principle. It's better to print and be damned, because you'll be damned anyway.

The problem of living in this modern world is the problem of finding room in it. The crowd principle is so universally at work through modern life that the geography of the world had been changed to conform to it. We live in crowds. We get our living in crowds. We are amused in herds.