Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be… — George Packer 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 father taught me many important giving lessons, but two stand out. First, always give as much as you possibly can. And… — Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen Copy Share Image
There is no part of the administration of government that requires extensive information and a thorough knowledge of the principles of political… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
To forgive somebody is to say one way or another, "You have done something unspeakable, and by all rights I should call… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have been called by different names brethren of the same… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The fact is that we have many superstitions, many bad spots and sores on our body - these have to be excised,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles. — Charles de Secondat Copy Share Image
...it is not only the general principles of justice that are infringed, or at least set aside, by the exclusion of women,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Temporary deviations from fundamental principles are always more or less dangerous. When the first pretext fails, those who become interested in prolonging… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We always come back to the same misunderstanding. The Jews because of their spirit of revolt, their exclusiveness and the Messianic tendencies… — Leon V. DePoncins Copy Share Image
“Are we truly acting from principle and not from interest? Surely it is at least convenient that for us the two coincide.” — John Colville Copy Share Image
The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
To totalitarianism, an opponent is by definition subversive; democracy treats subversives as mere opponents for fear of betraying its principles. — Jean Francois Revel Copy Share Image
“And here is the point, about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Senescent judges show how patriotic they are by passing out hard sentences for tearing up a draft card or following one's conscience… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
“The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love. With” — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
...Making people get over the concept that they've got the total proof. To get them to feel, 'Gee, I want to learn… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
This is a human form in which every Divine entity, every Divine principle, that is to say, all the names and forms… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There are principles which govern our life-they are the principles of Life. If our life is lived according to these principles all… — Henry Thomas Hamblin Copy Share Image
The republican principle demands that the deliberate sense of the community should govern the conduct of those to whom they intrust the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The use of cases is to establish principles; if the cases decide different from the principles, I must follow the principles, not… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I feel like we're between two great possibilities: we're either going to turn things around, and in this generation see the rising… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
