Principle Quotes

"I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple."
-Albert Einstein

"Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections."
-Meg Greenfield

"Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principle one was that they escaped teething."
-Mark Twain

"I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't."
-Mark Twain

"Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery, and the best form of tenacity I know is expressed in a Danish fur trapper's principle" "The next mile is the only one a person really has to make.""
-Eric Sevareid

"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."
-Thomas Jefferson

"Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist."
-Oscar Wilde

"Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle."
-George Washington

"I know [patriotism] exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward."
-George Washington

"Ghandi's seven sins:Wealth without workPleasure without conscienceKnowledge without characterCommerce without moralityScience without humilityWorship without sacrificePolitics without principle."
-Mahatma Ghandi

"The Dilbert Principle: People are idiots."
-Scott Adams

"I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles."
-Scott Adams

"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation."
-Herbert Spencer

"To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle."
-Confucius

"All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership."
-Ann Landers

"The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good."
-John Locke

"When someone says, 'It's not the money, it's the principle of the thing', it's the money."
-Kin Hubbard

"Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness."
-Henri Frederic Amiel

"It's better to be burnished with use than rusty with principle."
-Garrison Keillor

"The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice."
-George Eliot

"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost."
-John Quincy Adams

"As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything."
-George Carlin

"Carob works on the principle that, when mixed with the right combination of fats and sugar, it can duplicate chocolate in color and texture. Of course, the same can be said of dirt."
-Sandra Boynton

"As a matter of principle, the church never disclosed the 'not guilty' verdicts."
-Hubert Wolf

"To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle."
-Kong Fu Zi

"Propose to any Englishman any principle or instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English mind is directed to find a difficulty, a defect, or an impossibility in it."
-Charles Babbage

"Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice."
-Corazon Aquino

"Holiness is the very principle of eternal life, the very beginning of eternal life in the heart, and that which will certainly grow up to eternal life."
-Jeremiah Burroughs