Quotes with principle

Quotes 141 till 156 of 156.

  • Confucius To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage, or of principle.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Albert Camus Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Alan Watts Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bart Starr We, all of us, could do a much better job of evoking what someone has called the universal principle of human altruism: the urge in us all to help others who are in danger.
    Bart Starr
    American football quarterback and coach (1934 - )
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  • Kin Hubbard When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • Otto von Bismarck When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice.
    Otto von Bismarck
    German statesman and prime minister (1815 - 1898)
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  • David Hume Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • Bennet Omalu Yes, the concept that blunt-force trauma of the head causes brain damage is a generally accepted principle of medicine. That is why I was so appalled by the NFL doctors who were denying my work.
    Bennet Omalu
    Nigerian-American physician and neuropathologist (1968 - )
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  • William Somerset Maugham You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Napoleon Hill Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • George William Curtis A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
    George William Curtis
    American journalist (1824 - 1892)
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  • E. F. Schumacher An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.
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  • Albert Schweitzer Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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