(921 quotes found)
“To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.”
Margaret Thatcher
“If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic.”
Hazel Henderson
“Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles”
Confucius
“'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.”
Thomas Paine
“Enforced uniformity confounds civil and religious liberty and denies the principles of Christianity and civility. No man shall be required to worship or maintain a worship against his will.”
Roger Williams
“The human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes in life they make five or minus three; and sometimes the blackboard topples down in the middle of the sum and leaves the class in disorder and the pedagogue with a black eye.”
Winston Churchill
“I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly [that I want] to have a good job and have good friends; that's the good stuff in life.”
Drew Barrymore
“Independence - is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes”
Mark Twain
“Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.”
Giotto di Bondone
“The best principles of our republic secure to all its citizens a perfect equality of rights.”
Thomas Jefferson
