Quotes with principle

Quotes 101 till 120 of 156.

  • Walter Lippmann The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Ken Blanchard The first principle of ethical power is Purpose. By purpose, I don't mean your objective or intention-something toward which you are always striving. Purpose is something bigger. It is the picture you have of yourself-the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead.
    Ken Blanchard
    American writer
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  • Robert Collier The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Sigmund Freud The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Ali Hosseini-Khamenei The idea of human rights as a fundamental principle can be seen to underlie throughout Islamic teachings.
    Ali Hosseini-Khamenei
    Iranian ayatollah
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  • Bob Barr The legal principle placing the burden of proof on accusers rather than the accused can be traced back to Second and Third Century Roman jurist, Julius Paulus Prudentissimus. Yet, this ancient concept, which forms the legal and moral cornerstone of the American judicial system, is quickly being undermined in the name of 'national security.'
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • M. Russell Ballard The love for work needs to be re-enthroned in our lives. Every family should have a plan for work that touches the life of each family member so that this eternal principle will be ingrained in their lives.
    M. Russell Ballard
    American businessman and religious (2018 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Washington Irving The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • John Ruskin The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Jeremy Bentham The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.
    Jeremy Bentham
    English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer (1748 - 1832)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • V. S. Pritchett The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great bestsellers.
    V. S. Pritchett
    British writer and literary critic (1900 - 1997)
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  • Boris Sidis The principle of recognition of evil under all its guises is at the basis of the true education of man.
    Philistine and Genius (1919)
    Boris Sidis
    Ukrainian-American psychologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher (1867 - 1923)
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  • Aaron Allston The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.
    Aaron Allston
    American game designer and author (1960 - 2014)
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  • Germaine Greer The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Noam Chomsky The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Samuel Butler The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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