#principle

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. ↗

— Jane Smiley

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From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#derived #facts #obtained #only #principles

It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#lonely #principled #usually

After a long, impartial enquiry of the truth, and after much and earnest calling upon God, to give unto me the spirit and revelation in the knowledge of Him, I find myself obliged, both by the principles of reason and Scripture, to embrace the opinion I now hold forth. ↗

— John Biddle

#both #calling #earnest #embrace #find

The second principle of magic: things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed. ↗

— James G. Frazer

#after #been #contact #continue #distance

The proposition that Muslims are welcome in Britain if, and only if, they stop behaving like Muslims is a doctrine which is incompatible with the principles that guide a free society. ↗

— Roy Hattersley

#britain #doctrine #free #free society #guide

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#principles #rules #sacred

Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away. ↗

— George Packer

#compromise #ideology #principles #values #ideology

To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men. ↗

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#activism #free-speech #justice #principles #protest

In order every one in our homeland learns principles of democracy and the peaceful transition of power, and in order to stabilize and develop multiple choices in democratic practice. ↗

— Ali A. Saleh

#democracy #democratic #develop #every #homeland