Top 399 Principle Quotes

It’s easy to think that craft can’t change but important to remember that all craft process was at some point new, at some point challenged convention – not to be contrary, but enabled by some breakthrough, some newly discovered principle, or sometimes some wonderful accident.
Jonathan Ive
In principle, I think the idea of rewarding a good effort is interesting, but movies are generally different from each other as are performances and the conditions on how the performances are given and how they’re edited and so forth.
Viggo Mortensen
Executive privilege is nowhere to be found in the Constitution, and thus is a very limited principle.
Joe Sestak
Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature.
Joseph Butler
Under the dual sovereignty principle, the Fifth Amendment’s prohibition on double jeopardy – which prevents the government from trying someone twice for the same crime – doesn’t apply if the second trial is by a different ‘sovereign’ – in this case, the state.
Asha Rangappa
Labour opposes the principle of companies having their own private and privileged courts in which to settle investor-state disputes.
Barry Gardiner
We must stand up for the principle of parliamentary democracy and not allow the government’s failure in the Brexit process to be a licence for the U.K. to crash out of the E.U. without an agreement.
Keir Starmer
Neither the George W. Bush nor the Obama administrations volunteered to bail out G.M., Chrysler and other parts of the auto sector. Both subscribed firmly to the longstanding American principle that government should resolutely avoid these kinds of interventions, particularly in the industrial sector.
Steven Rattner
Bankruptcy represents a longstanding commitment in this country to helping people get a fresh start. This principle has never been giving only certain people a fresh start.
Tim Johnson
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you take Darwinian theory, make a ‘scientific’ principle out of it, put it into political action, then you have something like Nazi Germany.
Bruce Lipton
You have to be truthful and believable in whatever you do and that is the founding principle of acting.
Kay Kay Menon
When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean

When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
Otto von Bismarck
And I’ve always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.
Morris West
In sport, you only see the fighter, but it’s teamwork. Without a good team, you will never be the best. In boxing, you have to work with the best coach, the best lawyer, the best manager, the best doctor. Exactly the same principle applies in politics.
Vitali Klitschko
The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.
Washington Irving
The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
George Eliot
First Fruits is more than just an offering… it’s a principle.
Paula White
On principle, I always support the opinion of a population who express themselves through a referendum.
Matteo Salvini
The top principle for disruptive and sustaining innovation is that it has to have a laser focus on customers. Innovation begins with their needs and expectations.
Denise Morrison
A rational system and order for educational administration should be established on the principle of ensuring smooth progress of teaching and scientific research by teachers and researchers, and of edification of students.
Kim Jong-un
Jeremy Corbyn and his supporters do not have a monopoly on principle.
Liz Kendall
Work is important to me. I want to do things for principle, not just for the sake of doing them.
Tracey Ullman
Sanctification is the outcome and inseparable consequence of regeneration. He who is born again and made a new creature receives a new nature and a new principle and always lives a new life.
J. C. Ryle
Leaders receive and give assignments. This is an important part of the necessary principle of delegating. No one appreciates a willing volunteer more than I, but the total work cannot be done as the Lord wants it done merely by those doing the work who may be present at meetings.
James E. Faust
That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.
William Blackstone
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
Albert Schweitzer
International development aid is based on the Robin Hood principle: take from the rich and give to the poor.
Angus Deaton
I don’t think that has to be our choice… This party was born in principle. This party will die if it doesn’t stand by its decision of principle.
Alan Keyes
Net Neutrality – a guiding principle of the Internet since its beginning – means that content is all treated equally.
Chellie Pingree
The first issue to be settled is whether socialism has a right to exist Are its allegations concerning the present system true? Is industry proceeding on a principle of fraud? I wish to test the power of recent economic theory to give an exact answer to this question.
John Bates Clark
So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations.
Chris Patten
A feminist man is a bit like a vegetarian: it’s the humanitarian principle he’s defending, I suppose.
Rachel Cusk
Expressions of affection, like putting your arm around someone’s shoulder, holding hands, or giving a kiss good night, involve the principle of honesty.
John Bytheway
This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.
Thomas Dekker
Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life.
William Ellery Channing
The great effort of civilization has been, and still is, the attempt to introduce a principle of control into that casual swarm of impressions which makes up men’s thought and of which, especially with swayed by emotion, spontaneous action is the law.
George Edward Woodberry
I will form good habits and become their slave. And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls it will be done, for each scroll contains a principle which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one which will bring me closer to success.
Og Mandino
The national Democratic Party has embraced abortion on demand. I believe this position is wrong in principle and out of the mainstream of our party’s historic commitment to protecting the powerless.
Robert Casey
This concept of turning dying into flying is a metaphor for my basic life principle.
Dean Potter
Reports in Washington show that our reasoning was just like that of your physicists. With all this information available, at least to privileged persons, I cannot understand why it is generally held in the United States that we completely missed the basic principle of the bomb until after Hiroshima.
Werner Heisenberg
All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Everybody’s for democracy in principle. It’s only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.
Meg Greenfield
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
Adlai Stevenson I
I extend that to the abortion issue, I extend that to the so-called gay rights issue, I think this is a freedom principle and consistent with the analysis in the economic area as well.
William Weld
As a matter of principle, Republicans do not believe in federal price controls.
Jeb Hensarling
There’s a very collaborative, collective attitude. That’s a very female principle. We try to nurture that aspect of the band.
Kate Pierson
People say, ‘I’m only suing for the principle of the thing,’ and I reply that I can’t give you principle – only money.
Joseph Wapner
In principle, junk bonds are basically useful, but they are used excessively and irrationally, notably in takeovers.
Maurice Allais
If we are machines, then in principle at least, we should be able to build machines out of other stuff, which are just as alive as we are.
Rodney Brooks
Positivism eliminates any kind of natural law principle – for example, that there are economic laws which can be transgressed only at your peril. With positivism, there is a tendency to leap into ad hoc economic theory.
Murray Rothbard
They fail to recognize the broad biological principle that organic material is constantly being recycled. Everything has a time of being – a birth, a life span, and a death.
Dixie Lee Ray
With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, more people will have insurance coverage and, in principle, be eligible for more care.
Thomas R. Insel
Religions based on the principle of service and a focus on the less fortunate help a society deal with want.
Mercedes Schlapp
The principle that certain sins should not receive the Church’s testimony of forgiveness was probably no novelty at all, but had been applied in various churches; perhaps, however, with no strict consistency.
Robert Rainy
A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer.
Noam Chomsky
Protecting the sanctity of life is a matter of principle.
Dan Lipinski
For, quite literally, the whole world today is looking for us to take the lead in carrying out those obligations imposed on the American people as a whole by the beautiful, compassionate and courageous principle of noblesse oblige.
Robert W. Welch, Jr.