Quotes About Principle

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all... feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique - all these are in the middle.

Being an art form, verse cannot be "free" in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principle.

The art of governing consists simply of being honest, exercising common sense, following principle, and doing what is right and just.

And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.

In art there are two principal schools between which each aspirant has to choose--one distinguished by its close adherence to nature, and the other by its strenuous efforts to get above it.

What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?

Anytime you have to sacrifice your art, or integrity, it's a bad deal, no matter what they're offering.

To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality.

Quality is my principle and qualified is my attitude.

Ethics are so annoying. I avoid them on principle.

Now the Whigs also had to abide by the rule of law, the principle that laws should not be applied selectively or arbitrarily and that nobody is above the law.

Better to Die in Honour than to live in Shame. -Arra Sails

The easy way is not always the right way.

It is more than a mere rule, for rules can be changed. It is truth.

The report helpfully provided that Quakers are a religious group that pride themselves on their nonviolent beliefs. That was a stupid principle on which to found a religion, Chung-Cha thought. One could not rule out violence, because violence was often necessary. And since other religions routinely employed violence, those that did not were in constant danger of being rendered extinct.

Dogmas don't have to be entirely logical, as long as they work.

The core accounting equation A = L + E can be dissolved and reshuffled into everything from E = A - L to beyond.

The 80/20 rule asserts that approximately 80 percent of the effects generated by any large system are caused by 20 percent of the variables in that system.

With all things being equal, the simplest explanation tends to be the right one.

Entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity.

Keep things simple.

Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.

Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate. (Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily.)

Put plainly, there is a natural moral law, existing in reality, i.e., not invented by man, which transcends and trumps our desires. Something is right or wrong, whether we like it or not.