The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.

- Aaron Allston

Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has on several occasions talked about transparency as an absolute principle. I don't personally believe that.

- Bill Keller

If you ask me to compromise on principle, I will get out the veto pen.

- Bill Owens

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

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.

- Buddha

Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it.

- Brian Greene

A precedent embalms a principle.

- Benjamin Disraeli

Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.

- Arthur Murphy

The idea of human rights as a fundamental principle can be seen to underlie throughout Islamic teachings.

- Ali Khamenei

Austerity is not part of the European treaties; democracy and the principle of popular sovereignty are.

- Alexis Tsipras

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

- Alan Watts

Times have changed since George Herbert... but the principle and spirit in which he ministered as a priest remains an inspiration and model for all priests.

- Arthur Middleton

I didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was on the dole most of the time.

- Alex Kapranos

A principle is a principle, and God created all the principles.

- Andy Stanley

A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.

- Andrew O'Hagan

The whole principle of coming out is that everyone knows someone who's gay. The minute someone comes out, no one can be a bigot, because someone they love is gay.

- Aisha Tyler

On general principle, I boycott shows that don't employ actors.

- Aisha Tyler

Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle.

- Aleister Crowley

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

- Albert Schweitzer