Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.”[The New Statesman, February 25, 1933]

Reforms will come as all great reforms have always come in ridding us of evils against both man and animal–not as we change our moral principles but as we discern and accept the implications of...

Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.

In matters of principals, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.

A mother has the best of all smiles; she is a wonderful friend, lover and adviser.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

Give a man a noble cause and he would fight to the death for what he believed in,but get the woman he loves to leave him and his once honourable principles would cease to be...

There is indeed something deeply wrong with a person who lacks principles, who has no moral core. There are, likewise, certainly values that brook no compromise, and I would count among them integrity, fairness, and...

It is always easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.

But what [Orwell] illustrates, by his commitment to language as the partner of truth, is that ‘views’ do not really count; that it matters not what you think, but how you think; and that politics...

If there be such a principle as justice, or natural law, it is the principle, or law, that tells us what rights were given to every human being at his birth; what rights are, therefore,...

His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.

To me, patriotism means dedication to the principles on which the country was founded and a willingness to stand firm and fight for these principles regardless of what the government says or does

A loving mother makes sacrifices for peace and laughter to reign in her home and family.

My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature’s laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is...

A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could...

Don’t let them fool you and tell you goals has to be unified before any partnership agreement. Be carefully concerned about unifying your values and principles, after that all will run smoothly.

When what you value and dream about doesn’t match the life you are living, you have pain.

Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated

When you study God’s Word and incorporate His wisdom and principles into your daily life, your whole perspective will change.

Even in the privacy of our own thoughts, we can’t sow lies and reap truth.

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.

Tony Blair has turned his back on the principles he claimed he believed in before he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with George W. Bush. He was an entirely different kind of leader.

The price of freedom is teamwork” from forthcoming, Internet Etiquette: Netiquette Principles, Practice, and Power

If one is an optimist, one might be very hopeful that the principles (on how to resolve the nuclear issue) would be agreed upon at the very next round of talks,

Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form.

People can’t live with change if there’s not a changeless core inside them.

A true mother is known for her compassion, love and passion; she is everly dedicated to her calling.

Knowledge is a matter of knowing facts. Wisdom is a matter of understanding and applying principles. A certain amount of knowledge is necessary for wisdom, and without wisdom, knowledge is not only useless, it’s dangerous.

Sir, I would rather be right than to be President.

Parents have to instill the right principles in their children, but then it’s up to the children to live up to those principles.

All faiths are inter-related and mutually indebted to each other for the principles they teach, and the disciplines they recommended. ‘ 

Principles are meant to serve people, not people serving to uphold the principle, while harming the people.

Rebuild your world, rebuild your race, rebuild your empire. Rebuild it all. But make sure you rebuild your ideals too. Rebuild the principles that made you a great and honorable galactic power in the first...

Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles.

The Islamic Republic of Iran reiterates its previously and repeatedly declared position that in accordance with our religious principles, pursuit of nuclear weapons is prohibited,

in a way that is consistent with our values and principles.

Among many other things, genius implies the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple, and to recognize inclusive structural principals.

The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon [the ‘Super’, i.e. the hydrogen bomb] makes its very existence and the knowledge of its construction a danger to humanity as a whole....

Who really want to succeed follow the principles of his mentor with determination and action.

I appeal to all Britishers to answer this call to arms for the defence of all the principles that we Englishmen have been the first to proclaim in the world.

… the best education is self-discipline with good principles through human university.

A wholesome mother knows the software to delete, download, upgrade and upload for the best results.

It is important that the Commonwealth does back the principles which it repeatedly says that it stands for; those principles being constitutional law, human rights and democracy,

Sir, I had rather be right than to be President.

De wijze heeft geen onwrikbare beginselen. Hij past zich aan anderen aan.(Free translation into English: The wise man has no firm principles. He adapts to others.)

It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than to apply them.

If I had a thousand sons, the first humane principle I would teach them should be to forswear thin potations and to addict themselves to sack.

I know after the game our guys were limping. They were a physical team and their principles are still the same. They still get a lot of second- and third-chance opportunities. We can’t let that...