Quotes on Principles

Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite.

Author: Katharine Anthony

Upon the principles of reason, the good of many is preferable to the good of a few or of one; a lasting good is to be preferred before a temporary, the public before the private.

Author: Mary Astell

Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.

Author: Henry Beecher

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

Author: Ambrose Bierce

In teaching, I wanted to offer a general pharmacology course based on chemical principles, biochemical classification and mathematical modelling. In the event I achieved neither of my ambitions.

Author: James Black

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

Author: Jimmy Carter

Things are still in early stages, but one can imagine that as we build up and systematize our theories of these associations, and try to boil them down to their core, the result might point us toward the sort of fundamental principles I advocate.

Author: David Chalmers

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

Author: Agatha Christie

This oxidation of hydrogen in stages seems to be one of the basic principles of biological oxidation.

Author: Albert Gyorgyi

We can live our own lives in a way that does not bring reproach on the principles we claim to support.

Author: Jesse Helms

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

Author: Henry Kissinger

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

Author: Groucho Marx

The way you have bipartisan negotiations, you sit down across the table, as we did with Ted Kennedy, as I've done with many other members, and you say, 'OK, here's what I want, here's what you want. We'll adhere to your principles, but we'll make concessions.'

Author: John McCain

Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles.

Author: William McKinley

In stating the principles which regulate exchangeable value and price, we should carefully distinguish between those variations which belong to the commodity itself, and those which are occasioned by a variation in the medium in which value is estimated, or price expressed.

Author: David Ricardo

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

Author: Franklin Roosevelt

I don't consult polls to tell me what my principles are or what our policies should be.

Author: Paul Ryan

All universal moral principles are idle fancies.

Author: Marquis Sade

Dr. King's general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.

Author: Al Sharpton

The mongers brought them together upon a mutual surrender of their principles.

Author: Robert Toombs

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

Author: Oscar Wilde

Success is not determined by the position you hold, but by the principles you stand for.

Author: Jessica Marquez

Stand for something, or you'll fall for anything.

Author: Malcolm X