Quotes about Principle

To be sure, the term, will to power, was coined by Nietzsche rather than Adler, and the term, will to pleasure—standing for Freud's pleasure principle—is my own and not Freud's.

He went on saying No to her, on principle, for he never yielded to a woman on account of her sex.

Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

If you can't get to be uncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked. [...] live well and die happy.

To do a great right, you may do a little wrong; and you may take any means which the end to be attained will justify.

Altogether, the Old Bailey, at that date, was a choice illustration of the precept, that "Whatever is right;" an aphorism that would be as final as it is lazy, did it not include the troublesome consequence, that nothing that ever was, was wrong.

The great principle of out-of-door relief is, to give the paupers exactly what they don't want; and then they get tired of coming.

A bargain,' said the son. 'Here's the rule for bargains -"Do other men, for they would do you." That's the true business precept. All others are counterfeits.

Go put your creed into your deed...

Sooner or later...one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.

At the heart of every being lies creation's dream of a principle that will one day give organic form to its fragmented treasures. God is unity.