Quotes with principle

Quotes 81 till 100 of 156.

  • Bob McDonnell No matter what side of the spectrum you're on, you like to see your team fighting for the principle.
    Bob McDonnell
    American politician and lawyer (1954 - )
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  • Lord Melbourne Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
    Lord Melbourne
    British Statesman, Prime Minister (1779 - 1848)
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  • Robert Warshow Nobody seriously questions the principle that it is the function of mass culture to maintain public morale, and certainly nobody in the mass audience objects to having his morale maintained.
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  • Bede Griffiths Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.
    Bede Griffiths
    British-born priest and Benedictine monk (1906 - 1993)
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  • G. Emmons One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.
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  • Marcus Aurelius One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Adrian Cronauer Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.
    Adrian Cronauer
    American air force radio personality during Vietnam War (1938 - 2018)
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  • Andrew Johnson Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.
    Andrew Johnson
    American politician and 17th US president (1808 - 1875)
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  • B. W. Powe Passion was animal flesh, raw desire gnawing and ripping at its early limitations. These passions were to be feared only if undirected by the conscience of the higher self. Mind was the key to the process of enlightenment. Hence reason was the first principle, light itself.
    Mystic Trudeau - The Fire And the Rose Emanations, Destinies, p. 4
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Thomas Szasz Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Mark Twain Prosperity is the best protector of principle.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Protection is not a principle but an expedient.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Aishwarya Rai Right now, I'm following the Buddhist principle: Smile as abuse is hurled your way and this too shall pass.
    Aishwarya Rai
    Indian actress and model (1973 - )
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  • Augustus Hare Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • Immanuel Kant So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
    Immanuel Kant
    German philosopher (1724 - 1804)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, ''If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • C. Wright Mills Some men want war for sordid, others for idealistic, reasons; some for personal gain, others for impersonal principle. But most of those who consciously want war and accept it, and so help to create its inevitability, want it in order to shift the locus of their problems.
    The Causes of World War Three (1960)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • William James The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • William James The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Richard P. Feynman The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
    Richard P. Feynman
    American theoretical physicist and Nobel price winner (1918 - 1988)
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