Principles Quotes - Page 9

Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as a governing principle.

There can be no compromise between freedom and government controls; to accept 'just a few controls' is to surrender the principle of inalienable individual rights and to substitute for it the principle of the government’s unlimited, arbitrary power, thus delivering oneself into gradual enslavement. As an example of this process, observe the present domestic policy of the United States.

There are no rules in writing. There are useful principles. Throw them away when they're not useful. But always know what you're throwing away.

I write a manifesto and I want nothing, yet I say certain things, and in principle I am against manifestoes, as I am also against principles.

The principle rule of interpreting Scripture is that Scripture interprets Scripture.

Times change but principles don't. Times change but lands do not. Times change but our culture and our language remain the same. And that's what you have to keep intact. It's not what you wear - it's what's in your heart.

My guiding principle will be justice and complete impartiality, and I am sure that with your support and co-operation, I can look forward to Pakistan becoming one of the greatest Nations of the world.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

The only principle that does not inhibit progress is: anything goes.

Chemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data, and its principles supported by evidence from facts.

Well, our friend Dirac, too, has a religion, and its guiding principle is "God does not exist and Dirac is His prophet."

The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

There is a true glory and a true honor: the glory of duty done--the honor of the integrity of principle.

Principles are what allow you to live a life consistent with those values. Principles connect your values to your actions.

Circumstances should never alter principles!

As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle of the “sacredness of human life” remains a shameful lie, uttered with the object of keeping the oppressed slaves in their chains.

The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam; when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith.

Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union. A dissolution, at least temporary, of the Union, as now constituted, would now be certainly necessary. The Union might then be reorganized on the fundamental principle of emancipation.

Great revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bayonets, and are achieved first in the moral, and afterwards in the material sphere.

Simply put, if you want Bible results, you have to live by Bible principles.

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.

Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny precisely because its principles are the founding principles.

There are no styles of karate-do, just varying interpretations of its principles.

Sectarian priests cry out concerning me, and ask, "Why is it this babbler gains so many followers, and retains them?" I answer, It is because I possess the principle of love. All I can offer the world is a good heart and a good hand.