Quotes About Principles

We have to abandon liberal methods and principles of organizing a society.

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

The principles of disruptive innovation are indeed intended to be guidelines to assist managers both in introducing disruptive innovations as well as identifying disruptive developments in their market.

We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.

How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity.

The spirit in which the offer was made must of necessity contribute to improving and alleviating the situation of the Jewish people without our renouncing one iota of the great principles upon which our movement is based.

One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.

Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite.

It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles.

I don't know anything about cars. A business is a business, and I think I can learn about cars. I'm not that old, and I think the business principles are the same.

I don't consult polls to tell me what my principles are or what our policies should be.

You have to maintain your principles but have a broader appeal.

I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth.

So I think ethics is the broader thing that's less focused on prohibitions and is more perhaps looking at principles and questions and ideas about how to live your life.

The U.K. needs a system for family migration underpinned by three simple principles. One: that those who come here should do so on the basis of a genuine relationship. Two: that migrants should be able to pay their way. And three: that they are able to integrate into British society.

In order to restore our country to the principles on which it was founded, we need to elect leaders that believe in the principles of the party, not just the power of the party.

The principles that made this nation a great and powerful leader of the world, have not lost their meaning. They never will. We know we can bring this country back. I'm Mitt Romney. I believe in America. And I'm running for president of the United States.

You've got to be known for what you're running on, what principles.

I've laid down my set of principles, so I will not force government-run health care on anyone.

People end up fleeing countries who adopt economic policies based on these flawed principles. And more often than not, they come here.

Our forefathers got it; they got it, man. They took godly principles and they put them into action, and they developed our Constitution - the land of freedom where each man is accountable and responsible for his actions.

To call the American role in the world imperial was, for many who did so, a way of asserting that the United States was misusing its power beyond its borders and, in so doing, subverting its founding political principles within them.

I'm trying to encourage my children's generation and the other ones coming to return to basic American principles.

George W. Bush is not preoccupied with his legacy - nor with his popularity. He never has been. He has always led based on core conviction and strong principles and has believed that time and distance would allow for context.