Principles Quotes

“Rule of law”

“International law”

“Karma (Law of cause and effect)”

“Principle is ever my motto, no expediency.”

“I don't believe in princerple,
But, oh, I du in interest.”

“Ez to my princerples, I glory
In hevin' nothin' o' the sort.”

“principle”

“The man of action is always unprincipled; none but the contemplative has a conscience.”

“Wikipedia: Principles”

“Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.”

“Unless you perfectly understand the principle from which anyone acts, how should you know if he acts ill?”

“I wish to establish some sort of system not guided by chance but by some sort of definite and exact principle.”

“Treat the negro as a citizen and a voter, as he is and must remain, and soon parties will be divided, not on the color line, but on principle.”

“Our job in physics is to see things simply, to understand a great many complicated phenomena in a unified way, in terms of a few simple principles.”

“A very important principle in investing is that you don't have to make it back the way you lost it. And, in fact, it's usually a mistake to try and make it back it the way you lost it.”

“Plato said that virtue has no master [Republic 617e]. If a person does not honor this principle and rejoice in it, but is purchasable for money, he creates many masters for himself.”

“If the ruling class thinks that by hanging us, hanging a few anarchists, they can crush out anarchy, they will be badly mistaken, because the anarchist loves his principles more than his life.”

“Precedents are not mere dusty phrases, which do not substantially affect the question before us. A precedent embalms a principle. The principle may be right or may be wrong—that is a question for discussion; but at the first glance it is right to conclude that it is a principle that has been acted upon and recognised by those who preceded us.”

“[Many historians of morality,] Mostly Englishmen, … affirm some consensus of the nations, at least of the tame nations, concerning certain principles of morals, and then they infer from this that these principles must be unconditionally binding also for you and me; or, conversely, they see the truth that among different nations moral valuations are necessarily different and then infer from this that no morality is at all binding. Both procedures are equally childish.”

“When an active individual of sound common sense perceives the sordid state of the world, desire to change it becomes the guiding principle by which he organizes given facts and shapes them into a theory. The methods and categories as well as the transformation of the theory can be understood only in connection with his taking of sides. This, in turn, discloses both his sound common sense and the character of the world. Right thinking depends as much on right willing as right willing on right thinking.”