1,227 Quotes About Principles

We cannot reform without focusing on God and His principles

All atheists must examine the Non Aggression Principle.

The underlying problem is that we aren't arguing policies; we're arguing about identities, and therefore compromise is never considered a principled realization that they might have some legitimate concerns. It is, at best, a Machiavellian strategy forced on us by the bad group.

The task of a truly revolutionary party is not to declare that it is impossible to renounce all compromises, but to be able, through all compromises, when they are unavoidable, to remain true to its principles, to its class, to its revolutionary purpose, to its task of paving the way for revolution and educating the mass of the people for victory in the revolution.

Life will treat you according to how you observe its rules and principles.

True conviction is believing something to be right even after it becomes disadvantageous to you.

I was a philosopher when still in swaddling clothes. I was against life, on principle. What principle? The principle of futility.

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.