1,227 Quotes About Principles

The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.

Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature.

Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.

Success is the ability to rise above principle.

Of the eternal corporeal substance (which is not producible ex nihilo , nor reducible ad nihilum , but rarefiable, condensable, formable, arrangeable, and "fashionable") the composition is dissolved, the complexion is changed, the figure is modified, the being is altered, the fortune is varied, only the elements remaining what they are in substance, that same principle persevering which was always the one material principle, which is the true substance of things, eternal, ingenerable and incorruptible.

What gets me excited is the original principle.

Leadership, in short, is power governed by principle, directed toward raising people to their highest levels of personal motive and social morality,

This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by finding ways to encourage legislators to subordinate ambition to principle.

Demand the ballot as the undeniable right of every man who is called to the poll, and take special care that the old constitutional rule and principle, by which majorities alone shall decide in Parliamentary elections, shall not be violated.