Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules,… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
I have mastered the principles of several religions. They have all shocked me by the violence which I should have to do… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
My dear fellow, my whole life is moved by the principle that the one thing which is more important than peace is… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on… — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
The Exclusion Principle is laid down purely for the benefit of the electrons themselves, who might be corrupted (and become dragons or… — Alan Turing Copy Share Image
The revelation is that when you lift the curtain, history is decided by a very small group of people, and their own… — Mira Sorvino Copy Share Image
Faith, family, academics and then sports was the order of priorities in my family. My parents really stuck to these principles when… — Jeremy Lin Copy Share Image
All women should inform themselves of the condition of their sex and of their own position. It must necessarily follow that the… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Organized religion is in substance a mystification, a means of hiding the wickedness of the social system. If the Christian principles of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
It is equally clear that a government must govern, must prescribe and enforce laws within its sphere or cease to be a… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Through the discovery of Buchner, Biology was relieved of another fragment of mysticism. The splitting up of sugar into CO2 and alcohol… — Jacques Loeb Copy Share Image
We now possess four principles of morality: 1) a philosophical: do good for its own sake, out of respect for the law;… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Natural selection is just three factors - over-production, variation, and inheritance combined to produce adaptation to changing local environments. It's not a… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
True character arises from a deeper well than religion. It is the internalization of moral principles of a society, augmented by those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At the same time the Muslims are commanded to exercise self-restraint as much as possible. Force is a dangerous weapon. It may… — Abdullah Yusuf Ali Copy Share Image
The principle of the Inquisition was murderous. . . . The popes were not only murderers in the great style, but they… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
The principle of [divine] purpose... stares the biologist in the face wherever he looks... The probability for such an event as the… — Ernst Boris Chain Copy Share Image
Fundamentally, Buddhism is for the awakenment and benefit of beings. So, you can't say, "Oh, you can't have it because you're not… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
Adam Smith, and other able writers to whom I have alluded, not having viewed correctly the principles of rent, have, it appears… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the majority principle. This is especially true in a country such as ours where the vast majority have… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Anybody who objects to cloning on principle has to answer to all the identical twins in the world who might be insulted… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The typical lawmaker of today is a man wholly devoid of principle - a mere counter in a grotesque and knavish game.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I think it is appropriate that we pay tribute to this great constitutional principle which is enshrined in the First Amendment of… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
From the very start, I thought there were four key principles that the agency should focus on: driving private investment, driving innovation,… — Julius Genachowski Copy Share Image
An army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every enactment, every change of rule which impairs this… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
It has been thought that the people are not competent electors of judges learned in the law. But I do not know… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In death, Alexander of Macedon's end differed no whit from his stable-boy's. Either both were received into the same generative principle of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Pay attention, my young friends: to go against the current; this is good for the heart, but we need courage to swim… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The problem of how to characterise the properties that would trivialise the principle is one of the hardest problems concerning the principle… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
No politician has ever yet been able to rule his country, nor has any country ever yet been able to face the… — Frederick Scott Oliver Copy Share Image
During my study of happiness, I noticed something that surprised me: I often learn more from one person's highly idiosyncratic experiences than… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
History of Ireland--lawlessness and turbulency, robbery and oppression, hatred and revenge, blind selfishness everywhere--no principle, no heroism. What can be done with… — William Allingham Copy Share Image
In exposition and in argument, the writer must likewise never lose his hold upon the concrete; and even when he is dealing… — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
In politics, as in every other sphere of life, there are two important principles for a man of any sense: don't cherish… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
My principles in respect of religious interest are two,--one is, that the Church shall not meddle with politics, and the government shall… — Lajos Kossuth Copy Share Image
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