1,227 Quotes About Principles

One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.

An evolutionary morality argues that The North was right in pursuing that war because a nation is a higher form of evolution than a human body and the principle of human equality is an even higher form than a nation

Secession is a deeply American principle. This country was born through secession.

From the moment we are born our culture encourages us to believe that outer well-being is the source of inner fulfillment ... Wherever we turn the principle is confirmed, encouraging us to become 'human havings' and 'human doings' rather than human beings.

Sometimes we're actually right when we go with our gut and stand on principle in supporting underdog candidates.

...the individuals themselves, each in his own personal and sovereign right, entered into a compact with each other to produce a government: and this is the only mode in which governments have a right to arise, and the only principle on which they have a right to exist.

Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, 'Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.' Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!

The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal.

There can be no compromise on moral principles.