1,227 Quotes About Principles

A deaf church is a dead church: that is an unalterable principle.

I am committed to the principle that violence is never justified as a means of ameliorating a grievance.

The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle.

Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.

If you don't believe there's some organising principle, or somebody up in the sky pulling the strings, then it can be very stressful. And nature itself is very arbitrary - it's not malevolent or benevolent; it doesn't even know we're here.

In principle, skeptics are neither closed-minded nor cynical. We are curious but cautious.

I get angry at a principle, not a person.

There is no principle involved in my holdout. Only money.

The principles of ethics come from our own nature as social, reasoning beings.