Country people do not behave as if they think life is short; they live on the principle that it is long, and… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
It is all too easy for a society to measure itself against some abstract philosophical principle or political slogan. But in the… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
The fundamental principles of our religion are the testimony of the Apostles and Prophets, concerning Jesus Christ, that He died, was buried,… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
It is religion which has made modern Europe what she is by its stability amid the ruin of nations, by adapting itself… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
The whole contains nothing which is not or its advantage; and all natures indeed have this common principle, but the nature of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The knowledge that mankind needs is not the way or principle which has an absolute existence, but the particular truths for here… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
There is a conceptual depth as well as a purely visual depth. The first is discovered by science; the second is revealed… — Ernst Cassirer Copy Share Image
A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle: and patriotism… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
Action from principle, the perception and the performance of right, changes things and relations; it is essentially revolutionary, and does not consist… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Sermon on the Mount does not provide humanity with a complete guide to personal, social and economic problems. It sets forth… — Robert McCracken Copy Share Image
On the philosophical level, both Buddhism and modern science share a deep suspicion of any notion of absolutes, whether conceptualize as a… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Nowadays, mindfulness has become a catch-all word, but the general principle of trying to be more conscious and aware in our daily… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
I have come to deal with principles. I have only to preach that God comes again and again, and that He came… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In the law, rights are islands of empowerment. . . . Rights contain images of power, and manipulating those images, either visually… — Patricia J. Williams Copy Share Image
The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior to authority is as hypocritical as the religion that… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
But the basic principle that we’re going to have to see some of this debt written down, that the government is going… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is… — Henry George Copy Share Image
In his youth, Wordsworth sympathized with the French Revolution, went to France, wrote good poetry and had a natural daughter. At this… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
And now one of the greatest and most fundamental principles of the Cause of God is to shun and avoid entirely the… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
Give a man a noble cause and he would fight to the death for what he believed in,but get the woman he… — Mike Gayle Copy Share Image
Experimental work provides the strongest evidence for scientific realism. This is not because we test hypotheses about entities. It is because entities… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
I love America. I'm concerned about America and I believe the heart and soul of conservatives and Republicans recognize that the principles… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Napoleon, who had an aversion to the moral laxity of the eighteenth century, which he blamed on the domination of society by… — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share Image
The first issue to be settled is whether socialism has a right to exist. Are its allegations concerning the present system true?… — John Bates Clark Copy Share Image
A man must not only stand for the right principles, but he must also fight for them. Those who fight for principle… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The Trouble with liberals is twofold: They have a horrible blind spot with respect to moral principles and they have an abysmal… — Jacob G. Hornberger Copy Share Image
How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught,… — Olympia Brown Copy Share Image
As the war was just in its origin and necessary and noble in its objects, we can reflect with a proud satisfaction… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Aikido is the principle of non-resistance. Because it is non-resistant, it is victorious from the beginning. Those with evil intentions or contentious… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be… — George Packer Copy Share Image
“To be a person of principle is to accept the reality that their stance will never cease to draw the fire of… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
I have made it clear that we will hunt down terrorists who threaten our country, wherever they are. That means I will… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I consider myself to have been formed by a lot of the locutions and aesthetics and principles of the Muslim way of… — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
You see tragedy requires persons of heroic stature. It works on the principle of people being more than humansuper-humanand also being only… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
My principle anguish and the source of all my joys and sorrows from my youth onward has been the incessant, merciless battle… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image