Principles may refer to:
- Value (personal and cultural)
- Principles and parameters
- Principles (retailer)
Famous quotes containing the word principles:
“The machines that are first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex, and succeeding artists generally discover that, with fewer wheels, with fewer principles of motion, than had originally been employed, the same effects may be more easily produced. The first systems, in the same manner, are always the most complex.”
—Adam Smith (1723–1790)
“In her present ignorance, woman’s religion, instead of making her noble and free, by the wrong application of great principles of right and justice, has made her bondage but more certain and lasting, her degradation more hopeless and complete.”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)
“The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)