principles Quotes

The principle of self defense, even involving weapons and bloodshed, has never been condemned, even by Gandhi.

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy - but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that's how I am guided.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.