#principle

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#cannot #give #maintain #must #never

The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#american foreign policy #applying #caused #conditions #foreign

By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market. ↗

— Vaclav Klaus

#czechoslovakia #had #i #market #principles

I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the new government wanted to do. ↗

— Vaclav Klaus

#civic #expression #first #forum #government

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition. ↗

— John Ruskin

#best #condition #easily #effort #our

The truth of good economic doctoring is to know the general principles, and to really know the specifics. To understand the context, and also, to understand that an economy may need some tender loving care, not just the so-called hard truths, if it's going to get by. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#care #context #economic #economy #general

Parents need to teach their children principles of respect and acceptance. ↗

— Zachary Quinto

#children #need #parents #principles #respect

A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could write better. I'm one nine-hundredth as good as Liebling, but that principle may slightly apply. ↗

— David Remnick

#apply #better #could #faster #good

In stating the principles which regulate exchangeable value and price, we should carefully distinguish between those variations which belong to the commodity itself, and those which are occasioned by a variation in the medium in which value is estimated, or price expressed. ↗

— David Ricardo

#between #carefully #commodity #distinguish #estimated

The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught. ↗

— Anne Rice

#beginning #best #catharsis #character #end