When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
- Andy GibbsThose are my principles, and if you don`t like them... well, I have others.
- Groucho MarxI`m slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can`t motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.
- Scott AdamsIt takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more `manhood` to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.
- Alex KarrasI like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
- Oscar WildeGlory is not a conceit. It is not a decoration for valor. Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself, to a cause, to your principles, to the people on whom you rely and who rely on you in rerun.
- John McCainImportant principles may and must be inflexible.
- Abraham LincolnPrinciples have no real force except when one is well-fed.
- Mark TwainThe principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten
- Mark TwainWe all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.
- Mark TwainI have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
- Jane AustenThe best principles of our republic secure to all its citizens a perfect equality of rights.
- Thomas JeffersonConquest is not in our principles; it is inconsistent with our government
- Thomas JeffersonIf there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is, that we should have nothing to do with conquest
- Thomas JeffersonFrom principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
- Tom StoppardThere is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation
- Herbert SpencerI am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
- Everett DirksenThe religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion
- Edmund BurkeRules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
- Franklin D. RooseveltToday, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles
- James D. Watson`Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
- Thomas Paine