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Quotes About General principles

Bernays approached the age of mass media like a scientist in search of general principles, which he recorded in articles and books: Crystallizing Public Opinion, Propaganda, The Engineering of Consent.
~ Rich Cohen
The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity
~ John Adams
The teaching of the Spirit – not without or against the Word but as something above and beyond it and in addition to it, without which we cannot see God's will – is the heritage of every believer. It is through the Word and the Word alone that the Spirit teaches, applying the general principles or promises to our special need.
~ Andrew Murray
Una de las consecuencias de la primacía del hombre-masa en la vida de las naciones es, dice, el desinterés de la sociedad aquejada de primitivismo y de vulgaridad por los principios generales de la cultura, es decir, por las bases mismas de la civilización.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
An objection which applies to all conduct can be no valid objection to any conduct in particular.
~ John Stuart Mill
Our moral faculty, according to all those of its interpreters who are entitled to the name of thinkers, supplies us only with the general principles of moral judgements; it is a branch of our reason, not of our sensitive faculty; and must be looked to for the abstract doctrines of morality, not for perception of it in the concrete.
~ John Stuart Mill
All of life is partisan. There is no dispassionate objectivity. The revolutionary ideology is not confined to a specific limited formula. It is a series of general principles, rooted in Lincoln's May 19, 1856, statement: "Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.
~ Saul D. Alinsky
There is no dispassionate objectivity. The revolutionary ideology is not confined to a specific limited formula. It is a series of general principles, rooted in Lincoln's May 19, 1856, statement: "Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward." THE
~ Saul D. Alinsky
Principles of fair and equitable treatment included in many treaties are uncontroversial as general principles of good public governance.
~ Jose Angel Gurria
Miss Mills replied, on general principles, that the Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was.
~ Charles Dickens
Men seek solutions to specific problems, and, as history never really repeats itself, these kinds of solutions history rarely provides. What it does offer is a vast array of examples which illustrate general principles
~ Byron Farwell
The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal to neglect, but neither advisable, nor perhaps practicable, to use as the sole, or even the principal, guides in the actual conduct of affairs.
~ Nassau William Senior
Common is not the same as universal.
~ Mortimer J. Adler
The mistake of expressing them had arisen from his allowing himself to be influenced by general principles to the disregard of the particular instance.
~ Thomas Hardy
The truth of good economic doctoring is to know the general principles, and to really know the specifics. To understand the context, and also, to understand that an economy may need some tender loving care, not just the so-called hard truths, if it's going to get by.
~ Jeffrey Sachs
It is an old adage, "All is fair in love as in war," but I thought not of general laws, and only felt a private grievance.
~ Jane Swisshelm
Our political economy and our high-energy industry run on large, general principles, on ideas — not by day-to-day guess work, expedients and improvisations. Ideas have to go into exchange to become or remain operative; and the medium of such exchange is the printed word.
~ William F. Buckley
Strategy is a system of makeshifts. Is is more than a science. It is bringing knowledge to bear on practical life, the further elaboration of an original guiding idea under constantly changing circumstances. It is the art of acting under the pressure of the most demanding conditions...That is why general principles, rules derived from them, and systems based on these rules cannot possibly have any value for strategy.
~ Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than to apply them.
~ Winston Churchill
None of us had known the layout to Marcone's place, so we'd chosen to approach from the rear, on general principles of sneakiness.
~ Jim Butcher
Starting in the seventeenth century, the general theory of extreme values - maxima and minima - has become one of the systematic integrating principles of science.
~ Richard Courant