“ Laws are not masters, but servants, and he rules them, who obeys them. ”
- Ward Becker- Copy
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“ You may be flexible on strategy, but must remain consistent on principle! ”
- Brubaker Movie- Copy
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“ I find that principles have no real force except when one is well fed. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. ”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower- Copy
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“ I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles. ”
- Red Skelton- Copy
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“ The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool. ”
- Richard Feynman- Copy
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“ It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. ”
- Alfred Adler- Copy
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“ The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles. ”
- Ayn Rand- Copy
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“ Here's the rule for bargains: "Do other men, for they would do you." That's the true business precept. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency. ”
- Peter Singer- Copy
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“ Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them. ”
- Alan Watts- Copy
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“ Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers. ”
- William Feather- Copy
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“ Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned. ”
- Joseph Wood Krutch- Copy
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“ If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers. ”
- Edward F. Halifax- Copy
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“ I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow. ”
- Kiichi Miyazawa- Copy
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“ Laws are only felt when the individual comes in conflict with them. ”
- Suzanne La Follette- Copy
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“ We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter. ”
- James Clerk Maxwell- Copy
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“ The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative. ”
- Benito Mussolini- Copy
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“ So the compromise itself is within ethics rather than between competing ethics, and I think that's true in geo-political concerns. ”
- Peter Singer- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Any aggression against our foreign guests represents a challenge to the rule of law and we will not permit it. ”
- Mahmoud Abbas- Copy
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