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Flinch not, neither give up nor despair, if the achieving of every act in accordance with right principle is not always continuous with thee.
— Marcus Aurelius
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
Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it.
— Brian Greene
It has today occurred to me that an amplifier using semiconductors rather than vacuum is in principle possible.[Laboratory notebook, 29 Dec 1939.] — William Shockley
Aiming at giving our kids a competitive edge in a consumer society - that, in principle, is a goal that is limitless.
— Michael Sandel
The ecological principle of unity in diversity grades into a richly mediated social principle; hence my use of the term social ecology.
— Murray Bookchin
I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.
— James Russell Lowell
To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting.
— Roberto Benigni
Art has simple founding principles: Less is more, more or less; fill in the blanks with no filler.
— Kevin Focke
In principle, every social situation involves strategic interaction among the participants.
— John Harsanyi
My commitment to gender equality is rooted in the quintessentially American principle of equal justice under law.
— Eric Schneiderman
However few people can successfully demonstrate a principle in common ethics when their deliberation is festered with emotionalism.
— Truman Capote
3 things that should not be fought in this world, namely the Government, The Rich and the Madman
— Bambang
Sir John Templeton: "My ethical principle in the first place was: 'Where could I use my talents that God gave me to help the most people?'"
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The principle objectives in life are love, the creation and enjoyment if aesthetic experience, the pursuit of knowledge. Love comes a long way first.
— John Maynard Keynes
There is no principle involved in my holdout. Only money.
— O.J. Simpson
Unfair in practice is not the same thing as wrong in principle, but sometimes it has to do.
— Hendrik Hertzberg
An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
I don't believe in war, I believe in the principle of deterrence.
— Bashar Al-Assad
It is so much in the nature of men to overreach and deceive one another, that their very sports and plays are founded on that principle.
— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
When you are in doubt as to which you should serve forsake the material appearance for the invisible principle for this is everything.
— Alexandre Dumas
I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.
— Arthur C. Clarke
In the English character, the "give and take" policy, the business principle of the trader, is principally inherent.
— Swami Vivekananda
It's unnatural and unhealthy for a nation to be engaged in global crusades for some principle or idea while neglecting the needs of its own people.
— J. William Fulbright
The principle of equal pay for equal work is written in the EU Treaties since 1957. It is high time that it is put in practice everywhere.
— Viviane Reding
If a concept or principle finds its place in an explanatory theory, it cannot be excluded on methodological grounds.
— Noam Chomsky
Relativity theory forced the abandonment, in principle, of absolute space and absolute time.
— Marshall McLuhan
There are both things in international law: the principle of territorial integrity and right to self-determination.
— Vladimir Putin
A wellborn soul is guided by only one principle in the world: always do good to others and never harm
— Germaine De Stael
The search for historical laws is, I maintain, mistaken in principle.
— George Gaylord Simpson
The first principle of freedom is the right to go to hell in your own handbasket.
— Robert A. Heinlein
In the void is virtue, and no evil. Wisdom has existence, principle has existence, the Way has existence, spirit is nothingness.
— Miyamoto Musashi
Faithfulness to principle is only proved by faithfulness in detail.
— Frances Ridley Havergal
To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life.
— Lord Chesterfield
In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.
— Jacques Barzun
The passive receiving of Christ is the process by which a spiritual principle of grace is generated in the will of man.
— William Ames
The foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principle of private morality.
— George Washington
Had always believed an immersive virtual reality afterlife was possible in principle. Maybe
— Ken MacLeod
It is a principle of diplomacy that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly.
— Tom Clancy
The number of matter quanta in a given region or state is limited by the Exclusion Principle.
— Rodney A. Brooks
The foundation that my parents and grandparents instilled in me is unyielding, especially the principle that teaches me to keep God first in all I do.
— Carlos Wallace
The traits in career politicians the public detests most are produced when ego triumphs over principle.
— Tom Coburn
The only principle I can see in this life, is that one must forfeit the less for the greater.
— D.H. Lawrence
We must be devoted to sound principles in word and deed: principle above party, principle above pocketbook, principle above popularity.
— Ezra Taft Benson
The failure-dichotomy principle: failure is good. Failure is not an option. Balance those in your brain.
— Donny Deutsch
The simplest kind of decision is binary: that is, the question can be answered, in principle at least, by either yes or no.
— E. J. W. Barber
Tragedy always brings about radical change in our lives, a change that is associated with the same principle: loss.
— Paulo Coelho
Since evil is nothing positive, there can be no principle of evil. It has no meaning expect in reference to something good.
— Fulton J. Sheen
Any place you compromise in principle you will execute in performance.
— Johnnie Dent Jr.
Doing more with less, is a crucial principle to learn; especially if you're going to be in business in this rapidly changing world.
— Robert Kiyosaki
The regulative principle may therefore be seen, in a particular sense, as a natural inference from the doctrine of total depravity.
— Joseph C. Morecraft III
In principle, if you understood the mechanisms of keeping things repaired, you could keep things going indefinitely.
— Cynthia Kenyon
The principle component in any genuine friendship is caring, not competition.
— Charles F. Glassman
Mental synthesis of psychic content in the unity of a moment-consciousness is a fundamental principle of psychology.
— Boris Sidis
It also reminds me of an organizing principle: Anybody who is experiencing something is more expert in it than the experts.
— Gloria Steinem
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
— William James
Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The world has no reason for fighting in our defense, and as a matter of principle God does not make cowardly nations free ...
— Adolf Hitler
The great guardian principle of all conduct in the church of God is personal responsibility to the Lord.
— John Nelson Darby
It is right in principle that those should be the best loved who have contributed most to the elevation of the human race and human life.
— Albert Einstein
The principle that light can be in two places at the same time is absolutely extraordinary.
— Alan Davies
It seems logical that he who supports total war in principle cannot complain of a war against civilians.
— John Hersey
Us atheist people, we believe we have to act properly and honestly for a moral principle and not because we expect an award in Paradise.
— Margherita Hack
We cannot have a just society that applies the principle of accountability to the powerless in the principle of forgiveness to the powerful.
— Christopher Hayes
The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award.
— Javier Bardem
Out-of-date theories are not in principle unscientific because they have been discarded. That
— Thomas S. Kuhn
In the Kural there is a chapter on invocation to God. But there is no place in it for principle of idol worship.
— Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
