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Success is the ability to rise above principle.
-Gerald Barzan
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In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principal.
-Jacques Barzun
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Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.
-Tony Benn
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To abandon oneself to principles is really to die -- and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
-Albert Camus
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The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other.
-James Fenimore Cooper
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You can't live principals you can't understand.
-Stephen Covey
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The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance of the Agamemnons, but to the doctrinaire philosophers. The theories of the sentimentalist Rousseau inspired the integrity of the passionless Robespierre. The cold-blooded calculations of Karl Marx led to the judicial and business-like operations of the Cheka.
-Aleister Crowley
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Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses; whence it follows that religious principles bear upon nothing whatever and are not in the slightest innate. Ignorance and fear, you will repeat to them, ignorance and fear -- those are the twin bases of every religion.
-Marquis De Sade
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The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition.
-Albert Einstein
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
-Dwight D Eisenhower
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A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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Values provide perspective in the best of times and worst.
-Charles A. Garfield
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We may be personally defeated, but our principles never.
-William Lloyd Garrison
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Policy is the people you work with.
-William Gaskill
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The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness.
-Harry Harrison
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Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.
-G. W. F. Hegel
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It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
-Henrik Ibsen
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In matters of principals, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
-Thomas Jefferson
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Its easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.
-Ray Kroc
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Obey the principles without being bound by them.
-Bruce Lee
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Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no principle, however immaculate, that has not had its compromising manipulator.
-Percy Wynham Lewis
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People must have righteous principles in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
-Martin Luther
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Principle, particularly moral principal, can never be a weathervane, spinning around this way and that with the shifting winds of expediency. Moral principle is a compass forever fixed and forever true. And that is as important in business as it is in the classroom.
-Edward R. Lyman
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A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and revolutionaries who revive old doctrines, while their conservative and reactionary opponents are the inventors of new ones.
-Alasdair Chalmers Macintyre
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Books about Principles
