When people say, 'From first principles... ' to start their argument, what they mean is that they wish to assume as few… — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
France, like every other Western country except the United States, has long accepted the principle that comprehensive health care is the right… — Suzanne Massie Copy Share Image
it is impossible for any mind of common honesty not to be revolted by the contradictions in their principles and practice. They… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
Thus is the fruit of the Earth taken, its flesh torn. Thus is it given over standing, toward rot. It is the… — Richard Selzer Copy Share Image
Principles must conquer in the long run, for that is the manhood of man. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns applies to… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It is critical to have a sound understanding of traditional culinary principles before attempting to push boundaries in cuisine. Larousse Gastronomique helps… — Grant Achatz Copy Share Image
Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle. — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
We should be exploring consciousness at the neural level and higher, where the arrow of causal analysis points up toward such principles… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
There is a point of view among astronomical researchers that is generally referred to as the Principle of Mediocrity. ... If the… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
I think that the United States has always been most effective when it is leading both from power and principle. — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Those peculiar social sensibilities nourished by our own peculiar political principles, while they enhancethe true dignity of a prosperous American, do but… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
When Men are irritated, and the Passions inflamed, they fly hastily and cheerfully to Arms; but after the first emotions are over,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Equality, therefore, becomes the criterion because we can handle all that in process, but we can't handle that as principle without infringing… — Francis George Copy Share Image
Thus you see, most noble Sir, how this type of solution to the Königsberg bridge problem bears little relationship to mathematics, and… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
. . . is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race? — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
The whole principle (censorship) is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
In disquisitions of every kind there are certain primary truths, or first principles, upon which all subsequent reasoning must depend. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Rastafari is our king or emperor, and being a king, being an emperor you've been taught all the ways of the ancestors.… — Sizzla Copy Share Image
I think that when you look at our founding principles, it was based on America as a nation committed to universal human… — Ro Khanna Copy Share Image
Compromise for compromise sake is never good, unless it is grounded in principles. — Pramila Jayapal 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
An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
