Quotes About Principle

The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism.

The organizing principle, which according to an eternal law creates the different essential organs of the body, and animates them, is not itself seated in one particular organ.

So I really did stop and change what I saw I was about, and really try to put that principle into play as the center of everything - my friendships, my marriage, my career, my family, my way of being in the world. And that changed everything for me.

The question I should have asked is not what is the rule, but what is the principle.

I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.

Neither the George W. Bush nor the Obama administrations volunteered to bail out G.M., Chrysler and other parts of the auto sector. Both subscribed firmly to the longstanding American principle that government should resolutely avoid these kinds of interventions, particularly in the industrial sector.

Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image and the reality.

If we are machines, then in principle at least, we should be able to build machines out of other stuff, which are just as alive as we are.

Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it.

For nearly as long as civilization has existed, patriarchy - enforced through the rights of the firstborn son - has been the organizing principle, with few exceptions.

We don't need bipartisanship, we need application of principle.

I don't like to hurt people's feelings, and I don't like to knock other writers as a matter of principle.

Because the intention wasn't always to be an actor, that hasn't been my number one guiding principle.

Once the principle is there, that cells have the same genes, my own personal belief is that we will, in the end, understand everything about how cells actually work.

I have to admit, I'm not patriotic. It has partly to do with principle, but it is also a phobia/neurosis.

My commitment to gender equality is rooted in the quintessentially American principle of equal justice under law.

I believe in the principle that if you have more competition, it will drive down the prices.

Franklin Roosevelt didn't poll, because he had great political instincts. Now we have polls; we don't need instincts. But is that a change in principle? Is it a change in principle that we use a Xerox instead of carbon paper? It's of the same order of magnitude.

At the end of the day, I think the most conservative principle there is, is giving people a dollar worth of value for a dollar worth of tax paid.

As we continue to step up our investment in education, we must not sidestep our commitment to the principle of local control.

The obligation of any judge is to decide the case before the court, and the nature of the issue presented will largely determine the appropriate scope of the principle on which its decision should rest.

Principle says it's not who put forth an idea. It's not the position of the person who put forth an idea; it's not the longevity of the person or the party of the person. That's not what it is at all. In a power system, that's the way it works. But in a principle system, it's what it says.

In a system that disproportionately harms poor people and people of color, too many Americans have lost faith in the essential American principle of equal justice under law.

In 'Bush v. Gore,' five justices had a partisan outcome in mind and then made up the judicial principle to justify it, while claiming that the decision would not be precedent for any future cases.