Principles Quotes - Page 90

a successful politician does not have convictions; he has emotions.

Belief is a good thing in principle, but an annoying thing in human beings.

Compromise today is too often applauded simply for itself. The cost of compromise to principles and real lives doesn't seem to matter.

To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.

There is a great deal in a name. It often signifies much, and may involve a great principle.

Let us remember that all reforms are interdependent, and that whatever is done to establish one principle on a solid base, strengthens all.

The Occupy movement needs an organizing principle, and - just as the Tea Party did - it needs some actual measures of success. Choose one candidate whose agenda is squarely within that of the movement and make his or her electoral success a focal point.

[Tibet] is a small country based on religious principle, religious traditions. It never wanted any conquest.

I have never believed that war settled anything satisfactorily, but I am not entirely sure that some times there are certain situations in the world such as we have in actuality when a country is worse off when it does not go to war for its principles than if it went to war.

The vehemence of my moral indignation surprised me. Was I beginning to have standards and principles, and, oh dear, scruples? What were they, and what would I do with them, and how much were they going to get in my way?

The big tech companies understood that the government had not only damaged American principles, it had hurt their businesses.

When I talk about the polling, I'm talking about the principles. It shows these officials are knowingly attempting to shift public opinion, even though they know what they say is not factual.

The thegn who deems an unjust doom is to lose his thegnship. It is a principle which can be widely applied

Whenever the spirit of fanaticism, at once so credulous and so crafty, has insinuated itself into a noble mind, it insensibly corrodes the vital principles of virtue and veracity.

Language is the leading principle which unites or separates the tribes of mankind.

The grave is, I suspect, the sole commonwealth which attains that dead flat of social equality that life in its every principle so heartily abhors.

Why should the soul ever repose? God, its Principle, reposes never.

I find that I never lose Bach. I don't know why I have always loved him so. Except that he is so pure, so relentless and incorruptible, like a principle of geometry.

I set out with a perfect distrust of my own abilities, a total renunciation of every speculation of my own, and with a profound reverence for the wisdom of our ancestors, who have left us the inheritance of so happy a Constitution and so flourishing an empire, and, what is a thousand times more valuable, the treasury of the maxims and principles which formed the one and obtained the other.

The people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation and a sure principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement.

No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy.

The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted.

Women are extraordinary in lacking the estrus, or period of heat. The females of most other primate species become sexually active, to the point of aggression, only at the time of ovulation. Why has sexual responsiveness become nearly continuous? Unusually frequent sexual activity between males and females served as the principle device for cementing the pair bond.

Because, therefore, we are defending a way of life, we must be respectful of that way of life as we proceed to the solution of our problem. We must not violate its principles and its precepts, and we must not destroy from within what we are trying to defend from without.

Strong words are required for weak principles.