1,227 Quotes About Principles

I don't believe in war, I believe in the principle of deterrence.

The Andrew Principle is when the incompetence of an organization exceeds the incompetence of certain individuals within that organization, thereby allowing their promotion within said organization.

They talk about the f------ mob; at least we've got principles!

The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.

His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.

You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity.

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

If there is a form of government, then, whose principle and foundation is virtue, will not every sober man acknowledge it better calculated to promote the general happiness than any other form?

Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite.