Principle Quotes

Principle Quote of the day

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.

The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.

Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embraced collectivism.

Thus, the more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known, and conversely.

Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.

War has been the necessary and inevitable consequence of the establishment of a monopoly on security.

I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual.

Just as war is the natural consequence of monopoly, peace is the natural consequence of liberty.

I get angry at a principle, not a person.

The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes necessarily the supreme rule.

Why is there something rather than nothing?

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at.

I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.

The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.

In effect, we have redefined the task of science to be the discovery of laws that will enable us to predict events up to the limits set by the uncertainty principle.

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

One may say that predictions are dangerous particularly for the future. If the danger involved in a prediction is not incurred, no consequence follows and the uncertainty principle is not violated.

The anthropic principle is an unfortunate name as it implies something about humanity.

The market system is the basis of our civilization. Its only alternative is the Führer principle.

Over a very small number of rolls of the dice, the uncertainty principle is very important.

When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle.

They're called 'facts', and my role is to amplify those, not cheerlead. And I don't care at all what you think of my motives.

The profit of the one is the profit of the other.

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Important principles may and must be flexible.

If principle is good for anything it is worth living up to.

He who doesn't know how to put his will into things at least puts a meaning into them: that is, he believes there is a will in them already.

The key challenge facing us today is to successfully transmit into daily and everyday lifestyle the principle of truth and honesty.

They who employ force by proxy are as much responsible for that force as though they employed it themselves.

Where there is commerce there is peace.

When the state itself is held to the same moral standards as everyone else, it dies. And that's a wonderful thing.

The man who is not permitted to own is owned.

Ultimately, all arguments against markets are arguments against anarchy. Marx understood this much, at least.

Recall that the minimum wage was initially conceived as a method to exclude undesirables from the workforce.

Liberty is no less a blessing because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.

Truth is a fundamental principle that is needed for any form of building or construction. So also is honesty.

Truth is its own defense, therefore if something can’t speak for itself, it’s not truth.

Truth and honesty are some of the most powerful principles to developing a nation.

National transformation is also attainable through the simple principle of Truth and Honesty

Know, O man you are a particle of the supreme feminine being sucked to an obscure vacuum - of a bliss but that we can only name - universe!

If you see any country that is advanced and developed today, it is because that society is fundamentally based on principles of truth and honesty.