1,227 Quotes About Principles

If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.

Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.

Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.

When a Forsyte was engaged, married, or born, the Forsytes were present; when a Forsyte diedbut no Forsyte had as yet died; they did not die; death being contrary to their principles, they took precautions against it, the instinctive precautions of highly vitalised persons who resent encroachments on their property.

I knew that the principle objective of my film was to be a sentimental or an emotional study. What I did was kind of like subterfuge.

Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment.

God is not a person. God is an eternal principle.

Baby Boomers becoming Republicans while Dems become outdated.

GOP represents people, but Dems communicate better.