There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.
I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.
Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles.
General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves.
Republicans should simply focus on first principles and give the American people what they want - an honest party dedicated to common sense, fiscal responsibility and limited government. If we govern to save the country, we'll do well as a party.
In my opinion, we should search for a completely different flying machine, based on other flying principles.
When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy.
Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.
Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be inferiour to its possessor. But how does the slave differ from his master, but by chance?
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Action based only on principles isn't always good even if it feels good.
We would fight not for the political future of a distant city, rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth.
Things are still in early stages, but one can imagine that as we build up and systematize our theories of these associations, and try to boil them down to their core, the result might point us toward the sort of fundamental principles I advocate.
Just because people are in authority, if it doesn't seem right, don't do it. If it violates your own principles, don't do it.