Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist.
Oscar Wilde
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Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery, and the best form of tenacity I know is expressed in a Danish fur trapper's principle" "The next mile is the only one a person really has to make."
Eric Sevareid
A precedent embalms a principle.
Benjamin Disraeli
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Thomas Jefferson
The Dilbert Principle: People are idiots.
Scott Adams
I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.
Scott Adams
Ghandi's seven sins:Wealth without workPleasure without conscienceKnowledge without characterCommerce without moralityScience without humilityWorship without sacrificePolitics without principle.
Mahatma Ghandi
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
George Washington
I know [patriotism] exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.
George Washington
There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation.
Herbert Spencer
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.
Ann Landers
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
John Locke
When someone says, 'It's not the money, it's the principle of the thing', it's the money.
Kin Hubbard
Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
Henri Frederic Amiel
When my heart can beat no more I hope I die for a principle or a belief that I have lived for.
Tupac Shakur
It's better to be burnished with use than rusty with principle.
Garrison Keillor
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
John Quincy Adams
As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything.
George Carlin
I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple.
Albert Einstein
Carob works on the principle that, when mixed with the right combination of fats and sugar, it can duplicate chocolate in color and texture. Of course, the same can be said of dirt.
Sandra Boynton
As a matter of principle, the church never disclosed the 'not guilty' verdicts.
Hubert Wolf
To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.
Kong Fu Zi
Propose to any Englishman any principle or instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English mind is directed to find a difficulty, a defect, or an impossibility in it.
Charles Babbage
Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.
Corazon Aquino
Holiness is the very principle of eternal life, the very beginning of eternal life in the heart, and that which will certainly grow up to eternal life.
Jeremiah Burroughs
A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
George William Curtis
This court decision is consistent with the fundamental principle that patent laws exist to support and encourage medical innovators, not undermine them.
Hank Mckinnell
We can never have too much preparation and training. We must be a strong competitor. We must adhere staunchly to the basic principle that anything less than full equality is not enough. If we compromise on that principle our soul is dead.
Ralph Bunche
We talk on principle, but we act on interest.
Walter Savage Landor
There are few things more precious on any university campus than freedom of thought and expression, ... That is the teaching of the First Amendment, and I believe it should be the principle we live by at Columbia University.
Lee Bollinger
Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise, of health.
James Thomson
Were Congress somehow to reject the Administration's deal in some effort to maintain a consistent principle on non-proliferation, it would have no effect on Iran's decisions. But that futile gesture would have a devastating effect on US relations with India.
Robert Kagan
Israel has an important principle: It is only Israel that is responsible for our security.
Yitzhak Rabin
I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius.
Leo Szilard
The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
Igor Stravinsky
At what point is the discretion in individual cases actually a pattern which has become a concrete rule and that rule violates the principle and the spirit of the law?
Franklin Zimring
There are two great forces in this world - good and evil; and no man is worth his salt unless he has lost and won battle for a principle.
A. P. Gouthey
I will govern according to principle. The time has come for us to believe again.
Len Munsil
Jeffersonian principle of (an) informed citizenry being necessary for democracy. It's a window on the operations of government and the performance of government officials.
Paul Mcmasters
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Immanuel Kant
The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men.
John Randolph
Ethics are so annoying. I avoid them on principle.
Darby Conley
The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is that men seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion.
Henry George
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
George Eliot
This is the essence of character: the will and ability to put principle into action.
Scott Allen
It's a hugely important case, in part because it relates to the world's best-selling book, but also because of the principle of law involved.
Paul Sutton
The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.
Richard Dawkins
It's not going to hurt us financially that much, the overall amount, but it's just the principle of the thing and the idea that he's preying on other people.
Jerry Gantt
We must uphold the principle of enhanced coordination in the development of advanced weaponry.
Cao Gangchuan
Integrity in research and scholarship is a bedrock principle of MIT. Research misconduct violates this principle and MIT takes any allegations of research misconduct very seriously.
Alice Gast
There's a huge convenience benefit. There is also a potential financial benefit to the extent that there are different cost structures between mobile and fixed-lines networks - in principle it can be passed on to the customer.
Pawel Grochowicz
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.
Richard Feynman
Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.
Meg Greenfield
The Republican Party is committed to the basic principle that everyone deserves a chance to achieve the American Dream.
Alphonso Jackson
Based on this principle, we rule it illegal to use civilians as human shields, and we also rule it illegal to use civilians to pass military warnings from the army to those the army wants to arrest.
Aharon Barak
When you race, it's who's fastest, not who's the best blocker, ... I'm begging you to understand that principle. There are people that are faster and you must respect that.
Tom Curley
Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government and I will lead it as party of government.
Tony Blair
Organizing is our core principle. It is our north star.
Anna Burger
The country was founded on the principle that the primary role of government is to protect property from the majority, and so it remains.
Avram Noam Chomsky
It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact that equality is an ethical and not a biological principle.
Ashley Montague
It's the principle of the thing. If there is an issue, why didn't the council ask us about it, so we could correct the issue or come to a mutually agreeable solution to the problem?
Denise Willms
(Outraged fans) wanted to establish the principle that the NHL does not own the Cup, that it's owned on trust, to be awarded to the best team yearly in accordance with what Lord Stanley had said way back in 1892.
Tim Gilbert
It's not that I'm trying to be greedy. It's the principle of it. If you're injured, the regulations state you're to be given this medal.
Robert Williamson
The motive is to shut down the opposition. You can't establish a principle in which the regulation of politics is determined by which side holds the majority at the time.
Robert Bauer
These numbers are not important to us because Republican voters focus on principle, not public polls which will continue bouncing around.
Alberto Martinez
Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.
William Godwin
In a way then, the Divine Principle, this new revelation, is the documentary of my life. It is my own life experience. The Divine Principle is in me, and I am in the Divine Principle.
Sun Myung Moon
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
Arnold Toynbee
But regional planning needs to be improved when implementing the principle of reduction.
Chen Haoran
It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.
Florence Nightingale
The principle is important, because you need someone not under government control whose responsibility it is to investigate and find out the facts and come up with some conclusions.
Allan Cutler
When extremists extract concessions from democracies on points of principle, either by blackmail or terror, democracies do not have long left.
Philippe Val
The mixture of police and military duties is dangerous. Our history has taught us that. And a World Cup is not in any way a reason to deviate from that principle.
Theo Zwanziger
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
Joseph Wood Krutch
Given the decision that Mr Flavin was an agent and not principle in the trade, there would appear to be no tax liability associated with the trade.
Brid White
No objection in principle to removing people from the country or preventing them coming here if they are not conducive to the public good.
John Denham
When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice.
Otto von Bismarck
It's not about the money. It never was. The fundamental principle is, the guy loves this whole thing.
Paul Wachter
When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
Otto von Bismarck
The pejorative term 'political correctness' was adapted to express disapproval of the enlargement of etiquette to cover all people, in spite of this being a principle to which all Americans claim to subscribe.
Judith S. Marin
This lawless situation must not continue. Every imprisoned person should have the right to test the legality of their detention. It is this basic principle that has been denied to our clients.
Michael Ratner
The first thing a principle does is kill somebody.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Today in California, love conquered fear, principle conquered politics and equality conquered injustice.
Geoffrey Kors
A principle of justice is that the defense needs to be able to conduct interviews in a privileged setting. Otherwise there could be a perception of unfairness or abuse.
Alexandra Milenov
It is easy for clubs to say they are community oriented. We are actually putting the principle into practice.
David Reid
There's obvious tongue-in-cheek there. It's all about politics. That doesn't mean it's not fueled by personal interest as well as principle. But to not read politics into it is to say you're not paying attention.
Jaime Regalado
This is that basic principle, magnified by 20.
James Q. Wilson
Ultimately the final contract remained within the requirements of our No. 1 negotiating principle, which is enhancing our competitiveness.
Jim Mcnerney
There is a long-standing principle that people should not be able to benefit from their own crimes.
Dianne Hubbard
Beijing will adhere to the principle of 'frugal Olympics' in organizing the 2008 Games. We used the paper two-sided now.
Jiang Xiaoyu
If you're going to be a successful political movement, you've got to walk on two legs -- and one is principle, and the other is pragmatic. You can't be leaning too far to one side or another, or else you're going to fall.
Lee Edwards
We no longer want an immigration that is inflicted (on us) but an immigration that is chosen, this is the founding principle of the new immigration policy I advocate.
Nicolas Sarkozy
There is no change in our position. The main difference is that they in principle don't agree to link any of the three issues to the tri-nation pipeline, which is in principle opposite to our position.
Mahmudur Rahman
The principle was right there - you couldn't miss it. The more you did for your customers, the more they did for us.
Debbi Fields
If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.
Gunther Grass
In principle, what this has done is it has infringed on the executive branch's ability to manage the day-to-day operations of the government.
Shawn Gumataotao
I don't understand why they're scamming us like this. If they had a problem with anything, the courteous thing would be to call back. It's the principle of the thing. It's just 66 bucks, but if he's doing that to us, he must be doing it to other people, know what I mean?
Frank Borgia
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.
Alan Leshner
Breath is life, and the intermingling of breaths is the purpose of good living. This is in essence the great principle on which all productive living must rest . . .; in this way each individual life may also be fulfilled.
Paula Gunn Allen
My concern about families is that I'm not yet satisfied that there are arrangements which would meet my principle objective, which is to have people available for processing and for removal if they're not refugees.
Philip Ruddock
You cannot exploit the civilian population for the army's military needs, and you cannot force them to collaborate with the army, ... Based on this principle, we rule it illegal to use civilians as human shields, and we also rule it illegal to use civilians to pass military warnings from the army to those the army wants to arrest.
Aharon Barak
The fact that Hollywood productions use famously creative accounting is no reason to compromise a basic principle of our tax system.
Lenny Goldberg
In principle, it may be possible to deliver a higher amount of fiscal aid to state and local governments at a lower cost to the federal government if such aid is delivered as an outlay instead of as a tax preference.
Donald Marron
We will have an educational mission as well as a research mission, ... But our principle mission will be to build research.
Larry Cook
No man is fit to be a Senator... unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle.
Henry Fountain Ashurst
I feel insulted. But in fighting for my principle, I should never involve my personal emotion so I contained my pride, held my anger and gracefully exited. Very impliedly, they [opposition] don't want to talk to me.
Oliver Lozano
This is not a racial issue and should not be presented as such. The principle is legal versus illegal status.
Rep. Becky Hutchins
I don't think she has ever stopped feeling indebted to people who helped her out when she needed help. That sense of responsibility to others was absolutely overwhelming in her as a guiding principle. It was always: I need to measure up to the confidence placed in me.
Jim Martin
If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle -- absolute busyness -- then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy -- and without consciousness.
Gunter Grass
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.
James F. Cooper
This is about principle, about correcting something that has been unfair.
Brewster Mccracken
One-year deal, agreed in principle. He could sign it (today).
Joel Segal
My advice for posterity? Live by principle - that's all.
Steve Wallace
When you think something has to be done, and you believe it has to be done and the consensus is that it has to be done, you have to do it. And Mike, in some of the things he did when he was here, believed in the same principle.
Harry Sinden
Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle, justified by exemplary conversation.
John Witherspoon
Evolution works on the just-good-enough principle. So we want to learn how to mesh advantageous principles from biological systems with the best human engineering to actually build things that are better than nature.
Robert Full
The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler
I think in principle it can be built. In practice maybe.
Paul Kwiat
Everything is agreed in principle. Town have been very helpful. But first we have to win enough points before we can press our case. We have two games left. If we win them we will definitely finish out of the bottom three.
Steve Todd
The principle of equality and liberty are not just words on paper.
David Buckel
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry Fielding
Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principle one was that they escaped teething.
Mark Twain
I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.
Mark Twain
As for Beijing, the 'One China' principle is the political basis ... that the two sides must agree on before they can engage in any kind of dialogue.
Jia Qingguo
Its principle purpose is to help keep occupants inside the vehicle and protected.
Helen Petrauskas
Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
William Lamb Melbourne
It's never been a principle of law that people can read your e-mail as long as they don?t know who you are.
Jim Dempsey
You are just not bound by fixed walls. So in principle it's an open area where you can make yourself happy.
Fritz Gampe
He had to be carried out on a stretcher and (Bailey) was hobbling around on one foot. I have no use for thieves whatsoever. But it is the principle of this thing. It was brutality. Something needs to be done about this.
Charles Greene
At least in principle, this answers a huge question that this mayor and City Council have had about planned communities.
Michael Zuzel
I extend that to the abortion issue, I extend that to the so-called gay rights issue, I think this is a freedom principle and consistent with the analysis in the economic area as well.
William Weld
If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me - nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.
John Keats
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Thomas Paine
Now that we have found that the principle applies in owls as well as monkeys, we can figure out the mechanisms of how the brain manages attention.
Daniel Winkowski
Thou art blind to the danger of marrying a woman who feels and acts out the principle of equal rights.
Angelina Grimke
A lot of these parents would like to fight this on principle, but it's hard to put the kids at risk on principle.
William Bispels
From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.
John Henry Cardinal Newman
What he's doing here is frankly astonishing. This kind of coordination is obviously an attempt to get around legal contribution limits. The bottom line is that public policy is being made not by principle, but by payment up front.
Craig Holman
For a lot of recreational athletes, the principle is very important. It's even more important as you age.
Brandon Harrison
The important principle here is that this provides an assurance (to Sunnis) that this constitution is not the end of history but is subject to amendment.
Ridha Jawad
A clear majority in principle is willing to sacrifice civil liberties to a certain degree in order to make Britain safer.
Peter Kellner
We have an agreement in principle. The whole process, the 10-12 pages of paperwork, might take about a month.... Honestly, it's nothing to worry about. Bob and I have a handshake agreement.
Tim Weiser
The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great best-sellers.
Victor Sawdon Pritchett
I'm for it in principle. I personally think it would be good for the town financially.
Don Mckinnon
The government has rejected the standard of the best interest of the child as the guiding principle.
Jose Garcia
In principle, it can be difficult, ... That being said, it's not impossible that could be done in certain circumstances.
David Eden
He operated on the echo principle: He told the president what he wanted to hear.
David A. Stockman
The role of the military within domestic American society, both by law and by history, has been carefully constrained, and there is nothing in our strategy that would move away from that historic principle.
Paul Mchale
As a general principle, and at this sensitive time, we believe that dialogue is important and we encourage Egypt and Israel to maintain the closest possible contacts.
Susan Pittman
Times have changed since George Herbert... but the principle and spirit in which he ministered as a priest remains an inspiration and model for all priests.
Arthur Middleton
This is good news to us all. We are defending the principle of the right for caricature and satire.
Philippe Val
It's clear that Democrats can't afford to have Americans believe that they would sacrifice our security for the principle of civil liberties. Democrats, I think, need to be more assertive in a pro-security message.
Geoff Garin
We want to make sure the money is invested correctly and hopefully we will be in a position to invest back on our principle and we'll ensure that asset is not dwindled away.
Tony Price
Lipitor is one of the most important medical breakthroughs of our era, and millions of patients have used it to lower their cholesterol. This court decision is consistent with the fundamental principle that patent laws exist to support and encourage medical innovators, not undermine them.
Hank Mckinnell
Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common welfare.
Friedrich List
To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is.
Peter Nivio Zarlenga
Instead of subscribing to a best-practices principle that should be applied to all companies, we look at individual firms and how they performed in making a voting recommendation.
Shirley Westcott
I believe that a human embryo is worthy of legal protection, ... Western medicine has been founded on a principle: First, do no harm.
Matt Bartle
It's the principle. It was a big corporation saying the little guy is squat, and we're not going to pay for it.
Leroy Liptak
I would say this is all about principle. The principle here was to protect the postseason and preseason NIT and to keep it in New York. ... It will actually enhance the events and give them a greater chance to survive and be strong.
Jeffrey Kessler
Shore up the principle that gay people are entitled to equal protection.
Matt Foreman
When certain crimes are committed in a country and it is possible to try them, it must be done in that country. That's the principle of territoriality.
Mariano Rajoy
In principle, I'm sorry that we didn't liquidate him.
Ariel Sharon
In principle, Cam Profile Switching creates two engines in one. For instance, we can satisfy customers who prioritize performance, as well as those who are more interested in driving comfort and fuel economy, with equal ease.
Derek Crabb
We have to understand the law is an evolving principle; it's an evolving concept.
Bob Dillinger
My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy; you don't make them because they are cheap; you don't make them because they're popular; you make them because they're right.
Theodore Hesburgh
Teamsters Canada Rail Conference is pleased to announce we have reached a tentative agreement in principle with Via Rail Canada.
Gilles Hallé
If you put a pop can in the freezer, it will expand and blow up. It's the same principle as underground. The colder the liquid gets, it expands and will break the container it's in.
Dave Zagorac
In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.
Anna Jameson
Chris has always said he will win or lose this election on the war. This is an issue of principle. Chris believes the war is the right thing to do.
Michael Sohn
We have agreed in principle on a concept. It's not solid yet.
Michael Gronstal
By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
Claude Adrien Helvetius
Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, except the principle of fear predominates in his character; and then he is never made radically better for its influence.
Dorothea Dix
We conveyed to President Clinton our acceptance in principle to the proposal ... with our own explanations and interpretations of those proposals in relation to all the issues.
Abdel Rahman
Xerox has an agreement in principle with the SEC that effectively resolves Xerox's outstanding issues with the SEC.
Christa Carone
Sunnis have concerns about a few issues, one of which is the modality of federalism. They have dropped their opposition to the principle of federalism.
Barham Saleh
At the end of the day you have to be driven by principle and you've got to be driven by passion and your belief in what this country can be.
Belinda Stronach
Right now, I'm following the Buddhist principle: Smile as abuse is hurled your way and this too shall pass.
Aishwarya Rai
The only really good thing was the principle to have an independent commissioner.
Allan Cutler
In principle, we could be testing people, but it is premature to do that at the moment. There were no differences in temperament and background between the two groups. And even people who have emotional triggers experience emotions a lot more than they have heart attacks.
Andrew Steptoe
That's an indication that both programs and operations in Latin America have got really significant potential so that's a principle area of focus for us.
Charlie Sartain
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
Edward G. Bulwer lytton
We have reached an agreement in principle for the creation of a joint company.
Gholam Reza Aghazadeh
That's been the simple principle in a hundred years of football.
Michael Voss
Steadfastness in defense of principle has won her admiration from around the world, wherever people value a free, aggressive press.
Bill Keller
They say they won't harm children but in principle none of them follow what they say.
Tarak Dhital
In principle, we might be able to do everything we started out to do.
Don Burnett
Not all the details have been worked out but there is an agreement in principle between the clubs.
Jose Maria
This is good news for taxpayers and the states. We hope the Supreme Court will bring some clarity to this area of the law and affirm the principle that states are free to develop their own business climates, so long as they do not discriminate against out-of-state taxpayers.
Chris Atkins
Generally we don't like them as a basic principle. In some cases it is working reasonably well from a shareholder point of view and that has to do with the people involved.
Brian Gibson
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