Principle
Definition: A fundamental truth or proposition that serves as the foundation for a system of belief or behaviour or for a chain of reasoning.
Principles: The plural form of the noun "principle."
Number of Quotes: 16
According to the Stoics, all vice was resolvable into folly: according to the Christian principle, it is all the effect of weakness.
John Quincy Adams
It is among the evils of slavery that it taints the very sources of moral principle. It establishes false estimates of virtue and vice: for what
can be more false and heartless than this doctrine which makes the first and holiest rights of humanity to depend upon the color of the skin?
John Quincy Adams
The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one
indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.
John Quincy Adams
Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of
phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.
Scott Adams
Great nations need organizing principles, and Don't do stupid stuff
is not an organizing principle.
Atlantic Online interview, August 10, 2014.
Hillary Clinton
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Infantile love follows the principle: I love because I am loved.
Mature love follows the principle: I am loved because I love.
Immature love says: I love you because I need you.
Mature love says: I need you because I love you.
Erich Fromm
Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge
without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.
Mahatma Gandhi
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
Lillian Hellman
In matters of style, swim with the current;
In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Thomas Jefferson
Act only on that maxim which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
Immanuel Kant
I have been accused of allegedly giving up my free-market principles in supporting some of Donald Trump's proposed policies.
Larry Kudlow
I don't believe in principles. Principles are only excuses for what we want to think or what we want to do.
Compton Mackenzie
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that, when your position fails, your ego goes with it.
Colin Powell
Whenever we have compromised on our principles, we and our customers have been the losers.
Marcus Sieff
Business doesn't have to choose between making profit and protecting the environment, between economic success and ethical responsibility, between
satisfying the customer and meeting the demands of other stakeholders. In other words, we don't have to make a choice between profits and principles.
Jeroen van der Veer
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