#principle

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 at the onset. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#illness #man #never #onset #own

One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction. ↗

— Karel Capek

#never #own #people #personal #personal satisfaction

Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#drinking #drunk #eating #ignorant #indigestion

Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all. ↗

— Russell M. Nelson

#equally #eternal #govern #happiness #principles

I believe that free-market principles will solve our healthcare problems. ↗

— Rick Scott

#free-market #healthcare #i #i believe #i believe that

Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after. ↗

— Alan Watts

#based #destroy #destructive #far #more

Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle, justified by exemplary conversation. ↗

— John Witherspoon

#conversation #exemplary #inward #justified #men

I'm keenly aware of the Principle of Priority, which states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and (b) you must do what's important first. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#principle-of-priority #priorities #urgent #art

Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the strengthening of the State, was really and in principle the initiation of the State's destruction. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#defence #destruction #doubtless #effected #function

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 principles already held. ↗

— Matthew Scully

#morality #principles #reform #change