Quotes by Principles Leo Tolstoy ... defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers. Emma Goldman patriotismtrainingprinciples Even if we have to go without bread, we Albanians do not violate principles. We do not betray Marxism - Leninism. Enver Hoxha marxism-leninismprinciplesbread Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not. It is only after you have faced up to this fundamental rule and learned to distinguish between what you can and can't control that inner tranquility and outer effectiveness become possible. Epictetus effectivenessunderstandingprinciples If by sticking to the moral principles you have followed all your life, you jeopardize your happiness and that of others, throw over your principles. Principles for principles' sake -that is not wisdom; that is obstinacy. Principles should be fluid because life is fluid. Epifanio de los Santos over-youprinciplessake The deepest and most organic death is death in solitude, when even light becomes a principle of death. In such moments you will be severed from life, from love, smiles, friends and even from death. And you will ask yourself if there is anything besides the nothingness of the world and your own nothingness. Emile M. Cioran solitudelightprinciples In studying mathematics or simply using a mathematical principle, if we get the wrong answer in sort of algebraic equation, we do not suddenly feel that there is an anti-mathematical principle that is luring us into the wrong answers. Eric Butterworth wrong-answersprinciplesmath The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases. Epictetus principlesspecialevil Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not. Epictetus clearunderstandingprinciples It's so easy to become a grumbler, someone who condemns and carps at everything on principle and sees an ulterior motive behind it. Eric Metaxas motiveprincipleseasy Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery, and the best form of tenacity I know is expressed in a Danish fur trapper's principle: "The next mile is the only one a person really has to make." Eric Sevareid furprinciplesbravery If what charms you is nothing but abstract principles, sit down and turn them over quietly in your mind: but never dub yourself a Philosopher. Epictetus down-andprinciplesmind Every principle has a promise. Eric Thomas principlespromise I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it. Erica Jong principlesifsinspirational Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well considered and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly of all possible sins is the mutilation of a child’s spirit; for such mutilation undercuts the life principle of trust, without which every human act, may it feel ever so good and seem ever so right is prone to perversion by destructive forms of conscientiousness. Erik Erikson principlesmaychildren [T]he democratic principle of "one man, one vote," viewed against a background of voting masses numbering several millions, only serves to demonstrate the pitiful helplessness of the inarticulate individual, who functions at the polls as the smallest indivisible arithmetical (and not always algebraic) unit. He acts in total anonymity, secrecy and legal irresponsibility. Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn votingprinciplesmen It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life. Epictetus one-dayprinciplesmen Constructing a social system that tends to those who agree with it is a piece of cake compared to constructing one that makes those who disagree with it want to obey its principles. Erik Naggum cakepiecesprinciples After you've written a story, the thing to do is sell it. Sounds simple, and it is, if one will follow certain basic principles of salesmanship. Erle Stanley Gardner principlessimplesound 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. Erich Fromm differentprinciplesspiritual In brief, nationalism is a theory of political legitimacy, which requires the ethnic boundaries should not be cut across political ones, and, in particular, that ethnic boundaries within a given state a contingency already formally excluded by the principle in its general formulation should not separate the power holders from the rest. Ernest Gellner cuttingpoliticalprinciples«2627282930313233343536»
