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Principled Quotes (page 29)

The whole principle (censorship) is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak. Robert A. Heinlein
It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom. Horace Greeley
Louisa May Alcott quote: "No woman should give her happiness into the keeping of a man..."
No woman should give her happiness into the keeping of a man without fixed principles... Louisa May Alcott
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael quote: "A wellborn soul is guided by only one principle in the world:..."
A wellborn soul is guided by only one principle in the world: always do good to others and never harm Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
People everywhere, including the United States, are still prone to accept stereotypes, eager to believe what we want to believe (for example, on global warming) and anxious to await while others take the lead--seeking in vain to avoid both responsibility and risk. When trouble arises among faraway people, we remain tempted to hide behind the principle of national sovereignty, to "mind our own business" when it is convenient, and to think of democracy as a suit to be worn in fine weather but... Madeleine Albright
Tanner: My dear Tavy, your pious English habit of regarding the world as a moral gymnasium built expressly to strengthen your character in leads you to think about your own confounded principles when you should be thinking about other people's necessities. George Bernard Shaw
Jacques Barzun quote: "First Principle: Have a point and make it by means of the best..."
First Principle: Have a point and make it by means of the best word. Jacques Barzun
You alone will know why I killed myself. You know my principles. I hate those who commit suicide. Besause of what they do TO OTHERS. If you have to do it, you must disguise it. Out of kindness. Albert Camus
If only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us that we must hold to the difficult, then that which now still seems to us the most alien will become what we most trust and find most faithful. Rainer Maria Rilke
Louisa May Alcott quote: "But, Polly, a principle that can't bear being laughed at,..."
But, Polly, a principle that can't bear being laughed at, frowned on, and cold-shouldered, isn't worthy of the name. Louisa May Alcott
My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy; you don't make them because they are cheap; you don't make them because they're popular; you make them because they're right. Theodore Hesburgh
If you organize your family life to spend even ten or fifteen minutes a morning reading something that connects you with these timeless principles, its almost guaranteed that you will make better choices during the day--in the family, on the job, in every dimension of life. Your thoughts will be higher. Your interactions will be more satisfying. You will have a greater perspective. You will increase that space between what happens to you and your response to it. You will be more connected to... Stephen Covey
... the most probable of all my theorems, is that life is ordered by the principles of some religion so peculiar and obscure it has no followers, and none may fathom it, nor know the rituals by which to court its favour. Alan Moore
Consensus:?The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner:?I stand for consensus? Margaret Thatcher
Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue. Sinclair Lewis

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