Quotes by Principles There is a vast difference between devotion to a person and devotion to principles or to a cause. Our Lord never proclaimed a cause- He proclaimed personal devotion to Himself. To be a disciple is to be a devoted bondservant motivated by love for the Lord Jesus. Oswald Chambers differencesprinciplesjesus Hansel is certainly about comfort, while still sort of having a peacock principle of wanting to attract attention. Owen Wilson principlescomfortattention Circumstances should never alter principles! Oscar Wilde principlesshouldcircumstances Never make a principle out of your experience. Allow God to be as creative with others as He is with you. Oswald Chambers creativeprinciples Power has to be protected from scrutiny. That's the principle of every dictatorship, of every autocracy. You hear it from high priests at Harvard and every government department, that power has to be kept secret otherwise it will fade and it won't work. But Bradley Manning is violating that principle. Noam Chomsky governmentprinciplessecret It's a principle that anything our leaders do is for noble reasons. It may be mistaken, it may be ugly, but basically noble. And if you bring in normal moderate, conservative, strategic, economic objectives you threatening that principle. Noam Chomsky nobleleaderprinciples He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time. Oscar Wilde thievesprinciplestime It was one of those cases where you approve the broad, general principle of an idea but can't help being in a bit of a twitter at the prospect of putting it into practical effect. I explained this to Jeeves, and he said much the same thing had bothered Hamlet. P. G. Wodehouse jeevesprinciplesideas The Sermon on the Mount is not a set of principles to be obeyed apart from identification with Jesus Christ. The Sermon on the Mount is a statement of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is getting his way with us. Oswald Chambers principleswayjesus I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world. Oscar Wilde principleswittyfunny While I think in principle people should not have irrational beliefs, I should say that as a matter of fact, it is people who hold what I regard as completely irrational beliefs who are among the most effective moral actors in the world, in many respects. They're among the worst, but also among the best, even though the moral beliefs are ostensibly the same. Noam Chomsky principlespeoplethinking I organized tax resistance in 1965, with a friend. I kept at it for about ten years. I don't see it as a principle, it's a tactic. And I felt I had exhausted its potential as a tactic right about then, so I stopped. Noam Chomsky tacticsprinciplesyears I'm a registered Republican and consider socialism a violation of the American principle that you shouldn't stick your nose in other people's business except to make a buck. P. J. O'Rourke principlesnosespeople That happy sense of purpose people have when standing up for a principle they haven't really been knocked down for yet. P. J. O'Rourke purposeprinciplespeople Humans have trouble with economics, as you may have noticed, and not just because economic circumstances sometimes cause them to starve. Humans seem to have an innate inability to pay attention to economic principles. P. J. O'Rourke inabilityprinciplesattention The way I work with my cinematographer is not based on general principles, but the ideas are triggered by the locations where we shoot. Paolo Sorrentino principleswayideas Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way. Oscar Wilde one-dayprinciplesgiving I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about Jazz. Pat Metheny musicprinciplesworry But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything. Pat Robertson majorityprinciplesbelieve Pope John Paul II stands like a rock against all opposition in his clear enunciation of the foundational principles of the Christian faith. Pat Robertson rocksprincipleschristian«7980818283848586878889»
