1,227 Quotes About Principles

Today, local economies are being destroyed by the pluralistic, displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in a locality. The global economy is built on the principle that one place can be exploited, even destroyed, for the sake of another place.

An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.

The ecological principle in agriculture is to connect the genius of the place, to fit the farming to the farm.

There is a religious principle: Love thy neighbour as thyself. But it's also an economic asset. If you've got a neighbour, you've got help, and this implies another limit. If you want to have neighbours, you can't have a limitless growth economy. You have to prefer to have a neighbour rather than to own your neighbour farm.

The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment.

Principles are eternal...

The Ukrainian opposition should adopt democratic unity as its main principle, and it also must have one leader.

Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.

His main principles were indeed as follows: everything it is possible to imagine can also exist.