Quotes About Principle

What we have seen in financial markets should bring home to us all that the central organising principle of this 21st century is interdependence. For the century just past, interdependence may have been one option among many. For the century that is to come, there is no longer an alternative.

Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.

It's a principle of my philosophy that you have to respect the individual human being.

We don't understand the equity market well, and so we deploy funds in fixed-income securities, and like any other securities, investment in those securities also need to follow the mark-to-market accounting principle.

My father was a man of principle who found his principles confirmed in the unremitting failure which they brought on him.

Israel has an important principle: It is only Israel that is responsible for our security.

My kids aren't celebrities. They never made that bargain. We were offered a lot of money to sell pictures of our kids when they were born. You'll notice there aren't any. I make no judgment about people who decide differently; a lot of them give the money to charity. For me, it was a matter of principle.

It's an Islamic principle that you must follow the law of the land where you reside.

Merely implying bias due to a judge's ethnic heritage is wrong as a matter of principle and legally illegitimate.

Dad had a way of disarming people because he never really directly attacked them. He might attack a principle, but he never attacked the individual.

It is no accident that faith in Jesus Christ - not only believing in Him but believing Him - is the first principle of the gospel.

I don't think it's changed that much when you go on the principle if Garth introduced more rock into country music, then Florida Georgia Line's gonna introduce more dance and more beat-driven stuff into country music. That's just how it's gonna go. So whatever influences you as a kid, you're gonna put in your music.

I've always had the same principle for choosing roles, which is to try and make movies that I would pay to see. As I get older, that's meant different things.

We are not making this demand for the sake of a principle, but in the interests of the proletarian class.

What is magnificent about humans is when they decide to turn and stand. If they respond with non-violence on principle and hold their ground, they are really magnificent.

This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error.

We made certain that there were decent transitional arrangements to get us to where we wanted to go. The same principle will have to apply here or we won't get there.

The manner in which life constructs itself must be dealing with some other principle which we've failed to identify.

We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market principle, a principle of equality, of charity, of let's-take-care-of-one-another. That's the creative challenge.

Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phenomenal performances of these outstanding characters will obviously show.

Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with reason or the soul.

The movement of the emitters of the spectral lines may be deduced on the basis of the Doppler principle.

The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility.

What gets me excited is the original principle.