The first principle of ethical power is Purpose. By purpose, I don't mean your objective or intention-something toward which you are always… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
A fashionable idea in technical circles is that quantity not only turns into quality at some extreme of scale, but also does… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
How often must I repeat, that I know or am conscious of my own being; and that I myself am not my… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
Scientists can have their judgment clouded by their professional aspirations. And the pure truth of faith, which you can think of as… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“You wouldn’t do things to hurt others if only you understood the principles of God” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
It is the great glory as well as the great threat of science that everything which is in principle possible can be… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
The great thing about the Young Turks is that we've always stayed true to our principles. — Ana Kasparian Copy Share Image
The principles of Buddhism and Shambhala can be effective in helping the course of what is happening in the world. — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, If you will not lend me the money, how can… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What the media is doing is, again, just going after the Democrats and the Republicans and making it about politics instead of… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is, that we should… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed. — DeForest Soaries Copy Share Image
We must use a judicial, rather than a political, standard to evaluate [a nominee's] fitness for the Supreme Court. That standard must… — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
If you go with the principle, you should go with the principle. If I really saw the subject very differently than ten… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
Just supposing for the sake of the argument that there is a being of such a kind as that He may with… — John Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
We stand on no high moral plateau in our time. We are, in fact, plumbing depths of depravity unknown to our ancestors--and… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
I mean that it is more natural for me to be wicked than virtuous, when I do a bad act, and I've… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Modern man lives isolated in his artificial environment, not because the artificial is evil as such, but because of his lack of… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For Tibetans, the real strength of our struggle is truth - not size, money, or expertise. China is much bigger, richer, more… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
There are both things in international law: the principle of territorial integrity and right to self-determination. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I consider the domestic virtue of the Americans as the principle source of all their other qualities. It acts as a promoter… — Francis Grund Copy Share Image
To me, the essence of keeping the soul nourished is obedience to one's conscience. I don't think that the soul can be… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles. — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image