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
Principles are like a seed in the ground; they must continually be visited with heavenly influences or else your life will be… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
The ideas and principles of democracy should not be limited to politics, but must pervade all areas of social life. — Bruno Kreisky Copy Share Image
I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing. We have… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
This is the very heart of true morality--not to struggle, not to fight with any weapons, for one's self alone--but to struggle… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
I never feel to force my doctrine upon any person; I rejoice to see prejudice give way to truth, and the traditions… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action;… — Akhenaton 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
There is no escape from the vast imbalances in international trade and finance. They will be corrected, sooner or later, by the… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
In the yogic tradition, this principle of using intense effort to burn through life's distractions is called Tapas. It's another Sanskrit word,… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
Mathematics is being lazy. Mathematics is letting the principles do the work for you so that you do not have to do… — George Polya 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
Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phenomenal performances of these outstanding characters… — Major Taylor Copy Share Image
Reality is only a term, based on values and well worn principles, whereas the dream goes on forever. — Ian Curtis Copy Share Image
The Republicans have put together serious detailed counter-proposals when we have objected to this administration's agenda. And so, I want to tell… — Eric Cantor Copy Share Image
God has given us a revelation in regard to celestial marriage. I did not make it. He has told us certain things… — John Taylor Copy Share Image
The principle that the end justifies the means is and remains the only rule of political ethics; anything else is just a… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We kill because we are afraid of our own shadow, afraid that if we used a little common sense we'd have to… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
"Rituals" don't make you righteous, it's uprightness: living up to moral principles and ethical principles, and submitting to universal law established by… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
Thus the criminal ceases to be a person, a subject of rights and duties, and becomes merely an object on which society… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“We are all qualified to fellowship with God no matter our situation or condition” — Sunday Adelaja 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
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
The kingdom of God must be a continuing revolution against the norms of the society that fall below the standards that are… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
The Occupy Wall Street protests at last suggest that America's wealth gap is once again becoming an organizing political principle in the… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
You have just taken an oath of allegiance to the United States. Of allegiance to whom? Of allegiance to no one, unless… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I strongly believe that a small Jewish clique which has contempt for the mass of Jewish people worked with non-Jews to create… — David Icke Copy Share Image
Life is a process, not a principle, a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved. — Gerard Straub Copy Share Image
No man may initiate the use of physical force against others. No man-or group or society or government-has the right to assume… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You must practice to be able to return to essential principles at any moment. — Koichi Tohei Copy Share Image
Children learn many principles of natural law at a very early age. For example: they learn that when one child has picked… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Prana, according to the Vedanta, is the principle of life. It is like ether, an omnipresent principle; and all motion, either in… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I don't consult polls to tell me what my principles are or what our policies should be. — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
The works of nature and the works of revelation display religion to mankind in characters so large and visible that those who… — John Locke Copy Share Image
I think it's scary that that our elected officials aren't operating under the principles of human rights, under the principles that this… — Adam Yauch Copy Share Image
