Quotes by Principles There is nothing in the way of amelioration of the conditions of life, of politics, of social and ethical matters, that may not be affected through the skilful application of those principles of advertising that, in business, have proved to be so wonderfully effective. George Arthur French principlesmattermay Our business is to stand strongly for principles, but never to attack persons, about whose lives we can know but little. George Arundale principlesspirituallittles In every party there is one person who, through his dotingly credulous enunciation of party principles, incites the other members to defection. Friedrich Nietzsche memberspartyprinciples Regarding History as the slaughter-bench at which the happiness of peoples, the wisdom of States, and the virtue of individuals have been victimized--the question involuntarily arises--to what principle, to what final aim these enormous sacrifices have been offered. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel sacrificeprincipleshistory Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it boasts all the time of the incentive it provides to both to do their best! . . . The reason the Capitalist system has worked so far without jamming for more than a few months at a time, and then only in places, is that it has not yet succeeded in making a conquest of human nature so complete that everybody acts on strictly business principles. George Bernard Shaw incentivesmonthsprinciples What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on any lessons they might have drawn from it. Variant: What experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel governmentprinciplespeople The love of truth, virtue, and the happiness of mankind are specious pretexts, but not the inward principles that set divines at work; else why should they affect to abuse human reason, to disparage natural religion, to traduce the philosophers as they universally do? George Berkeley abuseprinciplestruth A doctrine is something that pins you down to a given mode of conduct and dozens of situations which you cannot foresee, which is a great mistake in principle. When the word 'containment' was used in my 'X' article, it was used with relation to a certain situation then prevailing, and as a response to it. George F. Kennan doctrineprinciplesmistake You are less majestically neutral than cloaking your cowardice in principle. George Hearst cowardiceprinciples The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions. George Henry Lewes principleseducationphilosophy Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it. George Horace Lorimer nobleprinciples Whatever lies beyond the limits of experience, and claims another origin than that of induction and deduction from established data, is illegitimate. George Henry Lewes dataprincipleslying I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth. George McGovern principleshomeamerica The principle part of faith is patience. George MacDonald principlesfaithpatience One of the first principles of decorative art is that in all manufactures ornament must hold a place subordinate to that of utility; and when, by its exuberance, ornament interferes with utility, it is misplaced and vulgar. George Mason ornamentsprinciplesart Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away. George Packer differentprinciplesanswers Sartre is one example of someone who does just this. Every text is, after all, a human document and whatever Kierkegaard thought about God was clearly a matter of human thought that can, in principle, be retrieved and interpreted by other human beings. A phenomenological approach to religion must, it seems to me, adopt the old adage: nothing human is alien to me. George Pattison principlesexampledoe I wondered over again for the hundredth time what could be the principle which, in the wildest, most lawless, fantastically chaotic, apparently capricious work of Nature, always kept it beautiful. George MacDonald natureprinciplesbeautiful The principle question before us is not, do we comprehend the atonement, but, do we accept it. George Q. Morris atonementacceptingprinciples To that movement, consecrated by religious principle, sustained by an awful sense of justice, and cheered by the brightest hopes of future good, all our powers, talents, and attainments are devoted. George Ripley principlesreligiousjustice«3334353637383940414243»
