Truth, though, is nothing in the face of self-falsehood, and principles are of no value if the idealist cannot live up to his own standards..

Never make a principle out of your experience. Allow God to be as creative with others as He is with you..

The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of th….

No woman should give her happiness into the keeping of a man without fixed principles..

Man tends to treat all his opinions as principles..

In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning any subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and practicable meth….

Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as a governing principle..

Once it has been perceived that the division of labour is the essence of society, nothing remains of the antithesis between individual and society. T….

Empathy is not merely the basic principle of artistic creation. It is also the only path by which one can reach the truth about life and society..

When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not contr….

Quality is my principle and qualified is my attitude..

When you are in love' hypocrisy won over principle..

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent..

If the principle is, "Let's not get lethal substances out to the public", the first one you'd go after is tobacco. The next one you'd go after is alc….

The crime of liberation theology was that it takes the Gospels seriously. That's unacceptable. The Gospels are radical pacifist material, if you take….

After you've written a story, the thing to do is sell it. Sounds simple, and it is, if one will follow certain basic principles of salesmanship..

False principles, which correspond with the bad as well as with the just aspirations of mankind, are a normal and necessary element in the social lif….

You can't be a part-time man of principle..

He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time..

The principle of love within us is an attribute of the Deity, and it is placed within us to be dispensed independently according to our own will..

An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles..