Rationality is not just something you do so that you can make more money, it is a binding principle. Rationality is a… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Not only can color, which is under fixed laws, be taught like music, but it is easier to learn than drawing, whose… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
The Republicans have lost their standards; they've lost their principles... Really, that's why the machine in the Republican Party is fighting against… — Sharron Angle Copy Share Image
It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Every part of our program of perestroika - and the program as a whole, for that matter - is fully based on… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about.… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
We have to be in a listening mode: it is about dialogue, about listening to what the others have to say, about… — Pierre Vimont Copy Share Image
The true principle of a republic is that the people should choose whom they please to govern them. Representation is imperfect, in… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
According to our social science, we can be or become wise in all matters of secondary importance, but we have to be… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union, true to the Leninist principles of respect for the rights and national independence of all peoples great or small,… — Kliment Voroshilov Copy Share Image
It becomes all therefore who are friends of a Government based on free principles to reflect, that by denying the possibility of… — James Madison 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
The Boy Scouts of America stands for a set of principles. These principles have a lot of staying power. The values you… — Bill Bradley Copy Share Image
(Waste = Loss): The first rule of business is to survive and the guiding principle of business economics is not the maximisation… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The pleasure principle long persists, however, as the method of working employed by the sexual instincts, which are so hard to 'educate',… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
..when, in my philosophical disquisitions, I deny a providence and a future state, I undermine not the foundations of society, but advance… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Now, take the Constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
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
Under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle… — Noam Chomsky 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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
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
Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
It is true that not everyone was represented at the table when our country was being birthed... Yet the principles of liberty… — Ketanji Brown Jackson Copy Share Image
Buoyant leadership is not a management technique, it's a leadership principle based on the belief that leading isn't presiding, it's taking people… — Kevin Allen Copy Share Image
I joined the Labour party because I believed in equality, in freedom of speech and in tolerance, compassion and understanding for people,… — Geoff Hoon Copy Share Image
An enforced uniformity of religion throughout a nation or civil state, confounds the civil and religious, denies the principles of Christianity and… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
By centering our lives on timeless, unchanging principles, we create a fundamental paradigm of effective living. It is the center that puts… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
