We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.
Hooray for differences! Without them, there would be no harmony. In principles, great clarity. In practices, great charity.
No one fights with more principle and passion than Michael Gove.
Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission.
The fanatic is not really a stickler to principle. He embraces a cause not primarily because of its justness or holiness but because of his desperate need for something to hold onto.
Exhorting his students: Be faithful to the moral principles of your religion.
If you're too sloppy, then you never get reproducible results, then you never get reproducible results, and then you never can draw any conclusions; but if you are just a little sloppy, then when you see something startling, (. . . ) you nail it down (. . . ). So I called it the "Principle of Limited Sloppiness".
Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as a governing principle.
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.
I follow a set of principles; I follow the Constitution. And that's what I base my votes on. Limited government, economic freedom, and individual liberty.
By consequence I hold that no one ever did, or can do, anything for "society. ". . . Comte invented the term altruism as an antonym for egoism , and it found its way at once into everyone's mouth, although it is utterly devoid of meaning, since it points to nothing that ever existed in mankind; This hybrid or rather this degenerate form of hedonism served powerfully to invest collectivism 's principles with a specious moral sanction, and collectivists naturally made the most of it.
I think there are universal principles that we should want to understand, but that are not necessarily good for us. We could recognise universal propensities which current cultures can't fully eradicate, which we would want to eradicate if we could. Let's say, a tendency for tribal violence. Or racism.
Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith.
In the most civilized and progressive countries freedom of discussion is recognized as a fundamental principle.
Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of quantum uncertainty, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. String theory does so again because a point particle is replaced by a string, which is more spread out.
Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.
We talk about equality, about happiness, about freedom - and about the spiritual values of religion, and about God - and in our daily life, we act on principles which are different, and partly contradictory.
This is America. We must defend the principles symbolized by Lady Liberty - unless she's on the pill, in which case, she is a giant green tramp.
Great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant.
Price above Principle makes you a Prostitute.
