An evolutionary morality argues that The North was right in pursuing that war because a nation is a higher form of evolution… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
The general point that a political theory is, among other things, a partisan intervention, is well taken. So question about the actual… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
'Atlas Shrugged' shows when you have a singular vision of something and how quickly you can become attune to that vision and… — Cody Fern Copy Share Image
If I am confirmed, I will commit to show Heller and the principles articulated in it the full measure of respect that… — Elena Kagan Copy Share Image
The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be booted out; not any particular manifestation of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The Greatest evils inflicted by man over the face of the Earth are wrought not by the self-seekers, the pleasure lovers, or… — Robert Morrison MacIver Copy Share Image
I think the institutions, principles, norms, and traditions that make the United States of America genuinely exceptional are at serious risk. It… — Chris Sacca Copy Share Image
It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
I started a modeling agency and I had it for about five and a half years and it was the same time… — Amy Weber Copy Share Image
Because the eternal principle of agency gives us the freedom to choose and think for ourselves, we should become increasingly able to… — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
The machines that are first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex, and succeeding artists generally discover that,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses;… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The habit of committing our thoughts to writing is a powerful means of expanding the mind, and producing a logical and systematic… — William Blaikie Copy Share Image
Of all the statist violations of individual rights in a mixed economy, the military draft is the worst. It is an abrogation… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A grain of real knowledge, of genuine controllable conviction, will outweigh a bushel of adroitness; and to produce persuasion there is one… — John Robert Seeley Copy Share Image
Unlike many spiritual leaders, Dalai Lama is never been in a position to just sit on a mountain top handing out wisdom.… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I have presented principles of philosophy that are not, however, philosophical but strictly mathematical-that is, those on which the study of philosophy… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
The thing that is so powerful about the psychedelics is that they perform on demand, which almost in principle you cannot expect… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
This is Heaven, when pain and evil cease, and when the Benignant Principle, untrammelled and uncontrolled, visits in the fulness of its… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“I repose in this quiet and secluded spot, not from any natural preference for solitude, but finding other cemeteries limited as to… — thaddeus stevens Copy Share Image
Our citizens will lose their confidence or trust in the values and principles of the international community, especially if our personal identity… — Boris Trajkovski Copy Share Image
The grand principles of virtue and honor, however they may be distorted by arbitrary codes, are the same the world over: and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Magic is antiphysics, so it can't really exist. But is shares one thing with science. I can explain the principle behind a… — Koji Nakanishi Copy Share Image
The core principle is that we want an economy that works for everyone, not just for a small elite. We want equal… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
I make a distinction between manners and etiquette - manners as the principles, which are eternal and universal, etiquette as the particular… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
I don't necessarily take issue with the label 'conservative journalist,' but I never particularly use that to describe myself. But I guess… — Andy Ngo Copy Share Image
One of the great secrets of the day is to know how to take possession of popular prejudices and passions, in such… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The more consistent a father can be or a mentor can be in the person's life and teach them principles of real… — Allan Houston Copy Share Image
[The Constitution] will not be saved in Washington. It will be saved by the citizens of this nation who love and cherish… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
[This is] the basis of the Innocent Woman Defense the Innocent Woman Principle:;: Women are believed when they say they are innocent… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Existing rules and principles can give us our present location, our bearings, our latitude and longitude. The inn that shelters for the… — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
I had been brought up in the law and had this sort of instinct that international law operates and was there to… — David Lange Copy Share Image
Tradition, in its essence, is something simultaneously meta-historical and dynamic: it is an overall ordering force in the service of principles that… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The whole art of making experiments in chemistry is founded on the principle: we must always suppose an exact equality or equation… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
We can call this "the progress principle": Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them. Shakespeare captured it… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
You are incarnations of God, all of you. You are incarnations of the Almighty, Omnipresent, Divine Principle. You may laugh at me… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All individuals in all cultures use the same thirty basic moral categories, concepts, or principles, and all individuals in all cultures go… — Lawrence Kohlberg Copy Share Image