When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Character is just another term for "good person." A person of character lives a worthy life guided by moral principles. A person… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
Roy Blunt is another white guy in a suit, and I think the public wants change. There's a good old boys' network… — Sarah Steelman Copy Share Image
Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota, without . . . having painted… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
Wonder... and not any expectation of advantage from its discoveries, is the first principle which prompts mankind to the study of Philosophy,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“Ethical principles stand above the existence of the nation and that by adhering to these principles an individual belongs to the community… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The idea of governing at all times by the simple force of law (which we have been told is the only admissible… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The more the specific feelings of being under obligation range themselves under a supreme principle of human dependence the clearer and more… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
All combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Living on the street as a kid changed the way I looked at everything. It was a different time and while it… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
The main implication is a remapping of the world in line with American policy and American interests. Natural resources are limited, and… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
Principles always have natural consequences attached to them. There are positive consequences when we live in harmony with the principles. There are… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Liberalism's key principle is to redistribute wealth from the haves to the have nots. That takes money from the entities with the… — Marty Nemko Copy Share Image
Peace is more than a lofty ideal. It is a practical principle that, with conscious effort, can become a normal part of… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
“In recovery, we try to take the opposite of our character defects/shortcomings and turn them into principles. For example, we work to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“At its core were certain principles: authority should be questioned, hierarchies should be circumvented, nonconformity should be admired, and creativity should be… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
What should have died along with communism is the belief that modern societies can be run on a single principle, whether that… — Charles Taylor Copy Share Image
“Hence the American heritage and founding principles must be thrust aside if there is to be human progress. They are dismissed as… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
I do not think a philosopher who would apply himself so earnestly to the explaining the ultimate principles of the soul, would… — David Hume Copy Share Image
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
We recipients of the boon of liberty have always been ready, when faced with discomfort, to discard any and all first principles… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
I have been true to the principles of nonviolence, developing a stronger and stronger aversion to the ideologies of both the far… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
No one really wants to follow you per se. They really don’t. They want to know that, by following you, they are… — Mel Lawrenz 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
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
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
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
I said after 2006 that Republicans didn't just lose our majority, we lost our way. I mean, our party walked away from… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
The secret principle of martial arts is not vanquishing the attacker, but resolving to avoid an encounter before its occurrence. To become… — Gichin Funakoshi Copy Share Image
Companies that model best practices, that model the most upstanding principles, end up as the most profitable. It's not a trade of… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
American [public] schools are failing because they are organized according to a bureaucratic, monopolistic model; their organizing principle is basically the same… — David Boaz Copy Share Image
The facts which have caused us to believe in the dominance of the pleasure principle in mental life also find expression in… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
If we don't hold fast to our moral principles, nobody's going to. We don't have to have a majority, but once ten,… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
What a mathematical proof actually does is show that certain conclusions, such as the irrationality of , follow from certain premises, such… — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
George W. Bush - who I'm sure that a lot of people, when I say this, will not be happy about it… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
“Reforms will come as all great reforms have always come in ridding us of evils against both man and animal--not as we… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
There is only one power and one dictatorship whose organisation is salutary and feasible: it is that collective, invisible dictatorship of those… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
I come to you with only Karate, Empty Hands. I have no weapons, but should I be forced to defend myself, my… — Ed Parker Copy Share Image
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