Principles Quotes - Page 3

• Piensa en simple", como solía decir mi viejo maestro, es decir, reduce el todo a sus partes en términos sencillos, volviendo a los primeros principios.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Artista, Simple, Pensamiento

  "El futuro de la arquitectura".

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• We, as citizens or members of people's organisations...can preserve and nourish basic principles needed for long-term efforts aimed at transforming a totalitarian and war-torn society into a democratic one.

  Katarina Kruhonja

  Guerra, Larga, Gente

  Katarina Kruhonja's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 1998.

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• The principle of nonviolent resistance seeks to reconcile the truths of two opposites-Acquiescence and violence -while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of both.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Opposites, Two

  "Stride Toward Freedom". Book by Martin Luther King, Jr., November 30, 1957.

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• The ideas and principles of democracy should not be limited to politics, but must pervade all areas of social life.

  Bruno Kreisky

  Ideas, Democracy, Social

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• La extinción es la regla. La supervivencia es la excepción.

  Carl Sagan

  Nature, Mass Extinction, Exception To The Rule

  Carl Sagan (2006). "Las variedades de la experiencia científica: A Personal View of the Search for God", p.76, Penguin

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• It behooves our citizens to be on their guard, to be firm in their principles, and full of confidence in themselves. We are able to preserve our self-government if we will but think so.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Thinking, Government, Self

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private”, p.320

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• En medio de la presión de los grandes acontecimientos, un principio general no sirve de ayuda.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Philosophical, Giving, Pressure

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Aakash Singh, Rimina Mohapatra (2008). “Reading Hegel: The Introductions”, p.115, re.press

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• En nuestro primer siglo de vida nacional desarrollamos el principio ético de que no era correcto ni justo que un hombre honesto y trabajador viviera y muriera en la miseria. Tenía derecho a cierto grado de simpatía y seguridad. Nuestra conciencia se declaraba en contra de que el trabajador honesto se convirtiera en un indigente, pero nuestros ojos nos decían que muy a menudo lo hacía.

  Frances Perkins

  Eye, Men, Ethical Principles

  Frances Perkins (1934). “People at work”

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• Under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control.

  Noam Chomsky

  Democracy, Definitions, Institutions

  Noam Chomsky (2004). “Language and Politics”, p.138, AK Press

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• In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.

  Jacques Barzun

  Splits, Way, Assembly

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• What made traditional economies so radically different and so very fundamentally dangerous to Western economies were the traditional principles of prosperity of Creation versus scarcity of resources, of sharing and distribution versus accumulation and greed, of kinship usage rights versus individual exclusive ownership rights, and of sustainability versus growth.

  Rebecca Adamson

  Rights, Greed, Growth

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• Poco a poco me voy convirtiendo al principio de que no se puede motivar a la gente para que haga cosas, sólo se la puede desmotivar. El principal trabajo del directivo no es dar poder, sino eliminar obstáculos.

  Scott Adams

  Empleo, Personas, Empoderamiento

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• El movimiento obrero se basa en el principio de que los fuertes deben ayudar a los débiles.

  John L. Lewis

  Strong, Labour Movement, Organized Labor

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• The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance of the Agamemnons, but to the doctrinaire philosophers. The theories of the sentimentalist Rousseau inspired the integrity of the passionless Robespierre. The cold-blooded calculations of Karl Marx led to the judicial and business-like operations of the Cheka.

  Aleister Crowley

  Integrity, Ambition, Agamemnon

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• The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other.

  James F. Cooper

  Visionaries, Way, Lasts

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Libro de James F. Cooper, 1838.

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• Ni una décima parte de los que estamos en el mundo de los negocios lo estamos haciendo tan bien como podríamos si simplemente siguiéramos los principios que conocían nuestros abuelos.

  William Feather

  Grandparent, Grandfather, Wells

  William Feather (1949). "El negocio de la vida"

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• I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

  Everett Dirksen

  Liderazgo, Empresa, Hombres

  Recalled on his death, 7 Sep 1969.

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• No confíes en la firmeza de tus principios ni en la constancia de tu integridad. Sé siempre vigilante y temeroso. Nunca pienses que tienes suficiente conocimiento, y no dejes que tu cautela se duerma ni por un momento, porque no sabes cuando el peligro está cerca.

  Charles Brockden Brown

  Integrity, Thinking, Slumber

  Charles Brockden Brown (1998). "Wieland; Or the Transformation and Memoirs of Carwin, the Biloquist", p.260, Oxford University Press, EE.UU.

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• We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

  Mark Twain

  Individuality, Protection, Cowardice

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.375, Courier Corporation

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• Hace falta más valor para revelar las inseguridades que para ocultarlas, más fuerza para relacionarse con la gente que para dominarla, más "hombría" para atenerse a principios meditados que a reflejos ciegos. La fortaleza está en el alma y en el espíritu, no en los músculos y en una mente inmadura.

  Alex Karras

  Fuerza, éxito, valor

  "Obituario de Alex Karras" por Michael Carlson, www.theguardian.com. 11 de octubre de 2012.

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• I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

  Jane Austen

  Selfish, Practice, Pride And Prejudice Pride

  'Pride and Prejudice' (1813) ch. 58 (Mr Darcy)

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• El odio engendra odio, la violencia engendra violencia, la hipocresía es respondida por la hipocresía, la guerra genera guerra y el amor crea amor.

  Pitirim Sorokin

  Amor, odio, guerra

  Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin (2002). "Los caminos y el poder del amor: Types, Factors, and Techniques of Moral Transformation", p.11, Templeton Foundation Press

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• It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this knowledge that we are seeking, we must consider the following point: of what kind of principles and of what kind of causes is wisdom the knowledge?

  Aristotle

  Words Of Wisdom, Causes, Kind

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• Though written constitutions may be violated in moments of passion or delusion, yet they furnish a text to which those who are watchful may again rally and recall the people; they fix too for the people the principles of their political creed.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Passion, People, Political

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.441

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• Wherever the Government does not emanate...from the people, the principle of the Government, the esprit de corps, the point of honour, in all those connected with it, and raised by it to privileges above the law and above humanity, will be hatred to the people.

  William Hazlitt

  Gobierno, Derecho, Personas

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