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Last updated on November 26, 2024.
Right now, I'm following the Buddhist principle: Smile as abuse is hurled your way and this too shall pass.
Honesty is largely a matter of information, of knowing that dishonesty is a mistake. Principle is not as powerful in keeping people straight as a policeman.
For me, dressing is always a question of principle, respect, a sense of order, not to disguise myself, even in rotten places.
The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.
One of the principle things life has taught me is that we always have a choice. When we say we "can't," we usually mean we're just not willing to pay the price.
Clearly the secret of happiness...is a variation on the general principle of banging your head against a wall, and then stopping.
Hansel is certainly about comfort, while still sort of having a peacock principle of wanting to attract attention.
Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has on several occasions talked about transparency as an absolute principle. I don't personally believe that.
I think that the problem of the American negro goes beyond the principle of any organization whether it's a religious, political, or otherwise.
Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature, that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so secures tranquility.
Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence.
Hitler had a plausible case to argue when he claimed that the Anschluss was only the application of the Wilsonian principle of self-determination.
Us atheist people, we believe we have to act properly and honestly for a moral principle and not because we expect an award in Paradise.
It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.
The principle of ahimsa is hurt by every evil thought, by undue haste, by lying, by hatred, by wishing ill to anybody.
Again, the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior; and the one rules, and the other is ruled; this principle, of necessity, extends to all mankind.
I want to live out principles that became a part of my life in my 40s, 50s, and 60s. One principle is the universality of freedom.
Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common welfare.
The principle aim of psychotherapy is not to transport one to an impossible state of happiness, but to help (the client) acquire steadfastness and patience in the face of suffering.
A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.
Principle #6: Recognition that change and reform are not identical, and that innovation is a devouring conflagration more often than it is a torch of progress.
What I've learnt is when you walk into a family argument and people tell you it's about principle don't get involved. There is more to life than principles.
Humanistic ethics is based on the principle that only humans themselves can determine the criterion for virtue and not an authority transcending us.
In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.
The general principle is that the victors don't look at themselves or concede anything. The defeated typically have to, except when it's beneficial to the powerful for them not to.
The peoples' revolution... will arrange its revolutionary organisation from the bottom up and from the periphery to the centre, in keeping with the principle of liberty.
The most basic principle to being a free American is the notion that we as individuals are responsible for our own lives and decisions
In a time of destruction, create something: a poem, a parade, a community, a school, a vow, a moral principle; one peaceful moment.
A cardinal principle of the gospel is to prepare for the day of scarcity. Work, industry, frugality are part of the royal order of life.
Perhaps the most important principle on which the economy of a manufacture depends, is the division of labour amongst the persons who perform the work.
I submit, on the other hand, most respectfully, that the Constitution not merely does not affirm that principle, but, on the contrary, altogether excludes it.
Nature governs man by no principle more fixed than that which leads him to pursue his interest.
Fundamentally, Buddhism is for the awakenment and benefit of beings. So, you can't say, "Oh, you can't have it because you're not ready for it." That goes against the fundamental principle.
I'm more inclined to linger in the science pages of 'The Week' magazine. But my principle obsessions are still watching sitcoms and football.
There can be no intelligent control of the lead danger in industry unless it is based on the principle of keeping the air clear from dust and fumes.
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.
A maxim is a conclusion upon observation of matters of fact, and is merely speculative; a "principle" carries knowledge within itself, and is prospective.
Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith.
The most important quality of leadership is intellectual honesty. The reality principle - the ability to see the world as it really is, not as you wish it were.
I believe the declaration that ‘all men are created equal’ is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest.
My principle anguish and the source of all my joys and sorrows from my youth onward has been the incessant, merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh.
An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude
In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate-look to his character.
I believe very firmly in the principle of free agency - people making their own decisions and doing what they think is right.
I sort of use as my guiding principle that show The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. Whenever possible, do the stupid thing.
The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.
Hitler understood the demagogues' essential principle to teach or persuade is far more difficult than to stir emotion.
We admit no faith to be justifying, which is not itself and in its own nature a spiritually vital principle of obedience and good works.
Norbit operates on the principle that vulgarity is automatically funny. Crassness doesn't need a joke attached because it is (in and of itself) the height of hilarity.
Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
There are no "standards of Right". Ethics is balderdash. Each Star must go on its own orbit. To hell with "moral principle"; there is no such thing.
Any email that contains the words 'important' or 'urgent' never are, and annoy me to the point of not replying out of principle.
I have been offered obscene amounts to do commercials and stage shows abroad, but as a matter of principle, I am against them.
IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle.
It's unnatural and unhealthy for a nation to be engaged in global crusades for some principle or idea while neglecting the needs of its own people.
I am a great believer that all the primary research has to be done before principle writing begins. I'm a huge advocate of plotting.
A basic principle of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are socialized to the extent possible, while profit is privatized.
There is no difference in principle, ... between the economic philosophy of Nazism, socialism, communism, and fascism and that of the American welfare state and regulated economy.
The declaration which says that God visits the sins of the fathers upon the children is contrary to every principle of moral justice.
The challenge of co-operation in today's age of quarrel can be achieved by adjusting every situation according to the higher principle of loving God.
