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“The first thing a principle does is kill somebody”

Firsts Doe Principles Killing

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“The good Lord gave me eight grandchildren, and I am convinced that through schools like Desert Christian that we are going to overwhelm the adversaries, not just with bombs and bullets, but with the demonstration of Christian principles.”

School Christian Christianity Lord Principles Eight Convinced Desert Bombs Bullets Grandchildren Adversaries Demonstration

Author:Oliver North

“One can thus state, without fear of being wrong, that every truly artistic production has been conceived and executed according to the principle of irregularity.”

Has Beens States Principles Perfection Productions Artistic Being Wrong Irregularity

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“May we incorporate into our own lives the divine principles which he Joseph Smith so beautifully taught by example, that we, ourselves, might live more completely the gospel of Jesus Christ. . . May our lives reflect the knowledge we have that God lives, that Jesus Christ is His son, that Joseph Smith was a prophet and that we are led today by another prophet of God - even President Gordon B. Hinckley.”

May Might Today Jesus President Christ Principles Our Lives Example Taught Divine Son Jesus Christ Prophet God Life Joseph Smith Gordon B Hinckley

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“It may indeed prove to be far the most difficult and not the least important task for human reason rationally to comprehend its own limitations. It is essential for the growth of reason that as individuals we should bow to forces and obey principles which we cannot hope fully to understand, yet on which the advance and even the preservation of civilization depend.”

Should Humans May Important Reason Individual Force Difficult Growth Principles Depends Civilization Prove Essentials Tasks Limitation Bows Preservation Human Reason

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. It behooves the well-intentioned, therefore, vigorously to watch the tendency of even their most highly prized institutions, since that which was established in the interests of the right, may so easily become the agent of the wrong.”

Wells May Evil Interest Principles Watches Virtue Society Produce Integrity Aim Institutions Corruption Tendencies Agents Agency Productive Governing

Author:James F. Cooper

“I believe the ultimate goal of living and refining your values is to identify and achieve congruence with universal principles.”

Believe Values I Believe Goal Principles Achieve Ultimate Universal Ultimate Goal Refining Congruence

Author:Steve Pavlina

“One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesn't work on this mirror principle - you don't have an exact replica on the left of what you have on the right. It just doesn't work that way.”

Way Writing Left Principles Mirrors Coming Back Replica

Author:Thomas Frank

“The sculptor must search with passionate intensity for the underlying principle of the organisation of mass and tension - the meaning of gesture and the structure of rhythm.”

Principles Mass Structure Passionate Rhythm Tension Intensity Gestures Sculpture Organisation Sculptors

Book:A Pictorial Autobiography

Source: A Pictorial Autobiography

“Efforts to revive the art principles of the past at best produce works of art that resemble a stillborn child.”

Children Art Past Effort Principles Produce Tradition Works Of Art Revive

Book:Kandinsky, Russia and the Bauhaus, 1912-1932: January 5-Febr Uary 11, 1984

Source: Kandinsky, Russia and the Bauhaus, 1912-1932: January 5-Febr Uary 11, 1984

“Ideology and communication more often than not run into each other rather than complement each other. Principle and communication work together. Ideology and communication often work apart.”

Running Together Principles Communication Ideology Working Together Complement

Author:Frank Luntz

“One way of getting along with people is the ability to give in. Strength of character means the ability to give in to others from motives of love, kindness, and humility, and to do so gracefully, when no sin is involved. It also means the ability to stand on principle, and not to give in, when sin is involved.”

People Way Giving Mean Character Sin Ability Principles Kindness Humility Involved One Way Motive Strength Of Character Getting Along

Author:Lawrence G. Lovasik

“Unity is the most important thing on the road to stamping out terror. You need global rules of law and order, and they have to be enforced. Start with that principle.”

Needs Important Law Order Literature Principles Important Things Unity Terror Rule Of Law Law And Order

Author:Chris Matthews

“What is good for my country is good for my party, Should my party abandon this principle, the American people will abandon us.”

People Should Country Party Principles Abandon Abandonment

Author:John McCain

“Thr principle of organization is built into nature. Chaos itself is self-organizing. Out of primordial disorder, stars find their orbit; rivers make their way to the sea.”

Way Self Stars Principles Sea Built Rivers Organization Chaos Disorder Orbit

Author:Steven Pressfield

“Yes, I'm a Pastor of a church called Understand Principles for Better Living Church, in Los Angeles, CA.”

Church Principles Los Angeles Pastor

Author:Della Reese

“The universe is not in a steady state; there's an ongoing creative principle in nature, which is driving things onwards.”

States Universe Nature Change Principles Creative Driving Steady Ongoing Creativeness

Author:Rupert Sheldrake

“The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of that activity by reference to principles.”

Quality Principles Virtue Activity Tests Vices Practicals Characteristics Englishmen Reluctance

Author:R. H. Tawney

“As a matter of principle, humanity is precarious: each person can only believe what he recognizes to be true internally and, at the same time, nobody thinks or makes up his mind without already being caught up in certain relationships with others, which leads him to opt for a particular set of opinions.”

Thinking Mind Believe Persons Matter Certain Humanity Opinion Principles Particular Caught Being True Caught Up Precarious Relationships With Others

Author:Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“The United Nations believes that acceptance of these principles will help the Palestinian people achieve their legitimate goal of an end to occupation and the creation of an independent and viable state, living in peace and security with its neighbors.”

People Believe Ends States Helping Nations Goal United Principles Achieve Security Creation Acceptance Independent Neighbor Occupation Palestinian United Nations Peace And Security

Author:Kofi Annan

“When we think of eternity, and of the future consequences of all human conduct, what is there in this life that should make any man contradict the dictates of his conscience, the principles of justice, the laws of religion, and of God?”

Thinking Men Should Humans Law Justice Principles Conscience Consequence Eternity This Life Contradiction

Author:William Wilberforce

“We must begin by acknowledging that there is a complete absence of two things in Indian Society. One of these is equality. On the social plane we have an India based on the principles of graded inequality, which means elevation for some and degradation for others. On the economic plane we have a society in which there are some who have immense wealth as against many who live in abject poverty.”

Mean Two Social Wealth Principles Poverty Economic India Absence Inequality Indian Planes Two Things Immense Degradation Elevation

Author:B. R. Ambedkar

“Our commitment to this founding principle is especially relevant today. Americans are united as rarely before in compassion and generosity for our fellow citizens whose lives have been devastated by Hurricane Katrina. The powerful winds and floodwater of Katrina tore away the mask that has hidden from public view the many Americans who are left out and left behind.”

“A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary Malthusian ideas.”

Ideas Facts Principles Example Theory Evolution Majors Faults Reactionaries Theory Of Evolution

Author:Trofim Lysenko

“There are certainly beliefs in traditional Buddhism that conflict with basic principles of scientific understanding, .. We can't make sense of those beliefs in any kind of scientific framework.”

Kind Belief Understanding Principles Buddhism Conflict Traditional Make Sense Framework Basic Principles

Author:Richard Davidson

“As Christians, we have an obligation and responsibility to abide by the principles of the Bible.”

Christian Responsibility Principles Bible Obligation

Author:S. Truett Cathy

“By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.”

May Science Religion Principles Resistance Paradox Paradoxical

Author:Galileo Galilei

“The secular university is scandalized by the claims of revelation. Those who have, for whatever historical reasons, become seekers-on-principle, cannot tolerate the allegation that truth is a gift. To have to receive offends those who have determined to take.”

Reason Christianity Principles Truth Is Claims Historical University Determined Revelations Tolerate Secular Seekers Allegations

Author:Louis Mackey

“It is somewhat perplexing that fellow Republicans would attack a popular conservative governor of a very conservative state whose overwhelming re-election proved a conservative philosophy can erase the gender gap and attract a record number of minority voters while remaining true to conservative principles.”

States Philosophy Numbers Principles Records Republican Election Fellows Conservative Gender Minorities Gaps Voters Overwhelming Governors Conservation Erase Gender Gap

Author:Karen Hughes

“Evolution is an organizing principle and when we call it a theory, we mean it's a theory, we don't mean that it's a belief that someone holds.”

Mean Belief Principles Theory Evolution

Author:Alan I. Leshner

“The underlying principles or fundamentals should be so hidden away by the beauty they are eventually to support, that it would require much digging to disclose them.”

Should Principles Support Fundamentals Digging

Book:Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

Source: Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

“The first principle of modern cultures may be their connectedness. Culture is like wind and wind knows no boundary or center. Once there is a center, wind becomes a whirlwind.”

Knows Firsts May Culture Principles Modern Wind Boundaries Connectedness No Boundaries Whirlwind Modern Culture

Author:Mu Xin

“The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal principle as he knows it will never enrich his science by the addition of a new idea.”

Knows Men Ideas Science Imagination Existence Principles Imagine Conditions Events He Man Contrary New Ideas

Book:The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics

Source: The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics

“In the age-old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity's approval.”

Age Loses Principles Courage Willing Conviction Approval Popularity Contests Posterity Deserving

Author:Gerald R. Ford

“Father taught us that opportunity and responsibility go hand in hand. I think we all act on that principle; on the basic human impulse that makes a man want to make the best of what's in him and what's been given him.”

Thinking Men Want Humans Hands Father Opportunity Given Responsibility Principles Taught Impulse Daddy Hand In Hand Fathers Day Taught Us Great Father

Author:Laurance Rockefeller

“Hitherto the principle of causality was universally accepted as an indispensable postulate of scientific research, but now we are told by some physicists that it must be thrown overboard. The fact that such an extraordinary opinion should be expressed in responsible scientific quarters is widely taken to be significant of the all-round unreliability of human knowledge. This indeed is a very serious situation.”

Source: The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics

“I hope the time is not far off when I shall be able to unite all the wise and educated men of all the countries and establish a uniform regime based on the principles of the Quran which alone are true and which alone can lead men to happiness.”

Men Country Able Principles Wise Army Educated Regimes Uniforms Quran Educated Man

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“It is necessary for the welfare of the nation that men's lives be based on the principles of the Bible. No man, educated or uneducated, can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.”

Men Life Is Nations Principles Bible Ignorant Educated Welfare Patriotic Uneducated

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“In Critical and baffling situations, it is always best to return to first principle and simple action”

Firsts Action Simple Situation Principles Military Return Critical

Author:Winston Churchill

“The as if principle works. Act as if you were not afraid and you will become courageous, as if you could and you'll find you can. Act as if you like a person and you'll find a friendship.”

Ifs Persons Friendship Principles Courageous Not Afraid

Book:Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living

Source: Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living

“While brother Joseph was referring to the provinces of God, I was led to reflect that there is no act, no principle, no power belonging to the Deity that is purely philosophical. The birth of the Saviour was as natural as are the births of our children; it was the result of natural action. He partook of flesh and blood - was begotten of his Father, as we were of our fathers.”

“The theory of Reincarnation, which originated in India, has been welcomed in other countries. Without doubt, it is one of the most sensible and satisfying of all religions that mankind has conceived. This, like the others, comes from the best qualities of human nature, even if in this, as in the others, its adherents sometimes fail to carry out the principles in their lives.”

Ifs Humans Has Beens Country Sometimes Quality Principles Doubt Failing Mankind Human Nature Theory India Satisfying Sensible Other Countries Reincarnation Incarnation

Author:Luther Burbank

“Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.”

Inspirational Success Principles Achieve Permanent Accountability Destroying

Author:Walter Cronkite

“America now is stumbling through the darkness of hatred and divisiveness. Our values, our principles, and our determination to succeed as a free and democratic people will give us a torch to light the way. And we will survive and become the stronger - not only because of a patriotism that stands for love of country, but a patriotism that stands for love of people.”

People Way Love Giving Country Light America Values Principles Darkness Succeed Determination Hatred Democratic Torches Stumbling Divisiveness Determination To Succeed

Author:Gerald R. Ford

“I know well the coequal role of the Congress in our constitutional process. I love the House of Representatives. I revere the traditions of the Senate despite my too-short internship in that great body. As President, within the limits of basic principles, my motto toward the Congress is communication, conciliation, compromise, and cooperation.”

“The basic principle that we must follow in directing the armies of the Republic is this: that they must feed themselves on war at the expense of the enemy territory.”

War Enemy Principles Army Expenses Republic Territory Basic Principles

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“The keys of a fortress are always well worth the retirement of the garrison when it is resolved to yield only on those conditions. On this principle it is always wiser to grant an honorable capitulation to a garrison which has made a vigorous resistance than to risk an assault.”

Wells Made War Principles Risk Conditions Keys Resistance Grants Yield Retirement Wiser Honorable Assault Vigorous Fortresses Capitulation

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Lack is more in means, than in principles.”

Mean Politics Principles Power

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Never before was it as incumbent upon every members to restate loyalty and exemplify fraternal obligation by consistent life and unimpeachable character. But these must be reinforced by a growing consciousness of the responsibilities that Alpha Phi Alpha faces in the world today, where, if ever the problems which beset us are to be solved and a way of deliverance discovered, it must be by the application of those principles upon which we are founded.”

Ifs World Way Character Problem Today Faces Consciousness Responsibility Principles Growing Members Loyalty Obligation Consistent Application World Today Deliverance Incumbents Alphas Fraternal

Author:Jewel

“It is the people, and not the judges, who are entitled to say what their constitution means, for the constitution is theirs, it belongs to them and not to their servants in office—any other theory is incompatible with the foundation principles of our government.”

People Mean Government Principles Judging Theory Office Constitution Foundation Servant Entitled

Book:Majority Rule and the Judiciary: An Examination of Current Proposals for Constitutional Change Affecting the Relation of Courts to Legislation

Source: Majority Rule and the Judiciary: An Examination of Current Proposals for Constitutional Change Affecting the Relation of Courts to Legislation