Quotes by Principles I am open to conviction on all points except dinner and debts. I hold that the one must be eaten and the other paid. George Eliot debtdinnerprinciples The principle is so perfectly general that no particular application of it is possible. George Polya principlesmathknowledge There must ... be in our very nature a very radical and widespread tendency to observe beauty, and to value it. No account of the principles of the mind can be at all adequate that passes over so conspicuous a faculty. George Santayana adequateprinciplesmind We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II, before the Nuremberg trials were held and the principle of war crimes was stated. George Wald principleswarinteresting One principle is the universality of freedom. I'm a freedom lover. George W. Bush universalityloversprinciples If we care about universal principles such as freedom, democracy and the rule of law, we cannot leave them to the care of market forces; we must establish some other institutions to safeguard them. George Soros democracyprincipleslaw The problem of living in this modern world is the problem of finding room in it. The crowd principle is so universally at work through modern life that the geography of the world had been changed to conform to it. We live in crowds. We get our living in crowds. We are amused in herds. Gerald Stanley Lee modern-lifeprinciplesworld Being persuaded that a just application of the principles, on which the Masonic Fraternity is founded, must be promote of private virtue and public prosperity, I shall always be happy to advance the interests of the Society, and to be considered by them as a deserving brother. George Washington masonicprinciplesbrother When I had made more money than I needed for myself and my family, I set up a foundation to promote the values and principles of a free and open society. George Soros foundationmy-familyprinciples Life is a process, not a principle, a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved. Gerard Straub mysteryproblemprinciples Not only do I pray for it, on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly forsee that nothing but the rooting out of slavery can perpetuate the existence of our union, by consolidating it in a common bond of principle. George Washington slaveryunionsprinciples In the age-old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity's approval. Gerald R. Ford principlesapprovalcourage Whenever there is a conflict between universal principles and self-interest, self-interest is likely to prevail. George Soros investingprinciplesself In Oceania at the present day, Science, in the old sense, has almost ceased to exist. In Newspeak there is no word for 'Science.' The empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc. George Orwell achievementprinciplespast I have made it a principle to give advice that does not serve my personal interest but rather the common interests. George Soros principlesadvicegiving A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great harm when he is morally acting on the highest principles. George Bernard Shaw actingprinciplesmen Romney, supposedly the Republican most electable next November, is a recidivist reviser of his principles who is not only becoming less electable; he might damage GOP chances of capturing the Senate... Republicans may have found their Michael Dukakis. George Will principlesmaymight The same principle that forbids me to lie does not allow me to tell the truth. Giacomo Casanova principlesdoelying Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function, but before they have been replaced with a totally new system of values. It represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and hybrid interregnum that might be called the last gasp of the past. Gilbert Adair batteriesprinciplespast The freedom movement is built around the principle of democracy and universality of freedom. George W. Bush democracymovementprinciples«3435363738394041424344»
