All men who live only according to their five senses, and seek nothing beyond the gratification of their natural appetites for pleasure and reputation and power, cut themselves off from that charity which is the principle of all spiritual vitality and happiness because it alone saves us from the barren wilderness of our own abominable selfishness.
It is a solid business principle that people who enjoy what they do are better at what they do.
Whatever principle of intelligence we attain in this life, it will rise with us in the resurrection.
He that easily believes rumors has the principle within him to augment rumors. It is strange to see the ravenous appetite with which some devourers of character and happiness fix upon the sides of the innocent and unfortunate.
The Principle of Priority states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and (b) you must do what’s important first.
Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phenomenal performances of these outstanding characters will obviously show.
The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.
All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.
Positive economics is in principle independent of any particular ethical position or normative judgment. . . In short, positive economics is or can be an "objective" science.
You can't be a part-time man of principle.
Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice. . . You expect too much of human nature when you expect that.
Our contention is not for mere toleration, but for absolute liberty. There is a wide difference between toleration and liberty. Toleration implies that somebody falsely claims the right to tolerate. Toleration is a concession, while liberty is a right. Toleration is a matter of expediency, while liberty is a matter of principle.
Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue.
Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the "latent spark". . . If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?
Strengthening the role the United Nations can play. . . will require serious examination of the need to extend into the international arena the rule of law and the principle of taxation to finance agreed actions which provide the basis for governance at the national level. But this will not come about easily. Resistance to such changes is deeply entrenched. They will come about not through the embrace of full blown world government, but as a careful and pragmatic response to compelling imperatives and the inadequacies of alternatives.
A precedent embalms a principle.
I don't believe in war, I believe in the principle of deterrence.
I have never opened with the QP - on principle.
Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.
There are some women who are flirts upon principle; they consider it their duty to make themselves as pleasing as possible to every one.