It is religion which has made modern Europe what she is by its stability amid the ruin of nations, by adapting itself… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
If we don't hold fast to our moral principles, nobody's going to. We don't have to have a majority, but once ten,… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
What a mathematical proof actually does is show that certain conclusions, such as the irrationality of , follow from certain premises, such… — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
George W. Bush - who I'm sure that a lot of people, when I say this, will not be happy about it… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
American [public] schools are failing because they are organized according to a bureaucratic, monopolistic model; their organizing principle is basically the same… — David Boaz Copy Share Image
The facts which have caused us to believe in the dominance of the pleasure principle in mental life also find expression in… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The secret principle of martial arts is not vanquishing the attacker, but resolving to avoid an encounter before its occurrence. To become… — Gichin Funakoshi Copy Share Image
Companies that model best practices, that model the most upstanding principles, end up as the most profitable. It's not a trade of… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
When you start looking at a problem and it seems really simple, you don't really understand the complexity of the problem. Then… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Leo Tolstoy, the greatest anti-patriot of our time, defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers; a… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Why does philosophy use concepts and why does faith use symbols if both try to express the same ultimate? The answer, of… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
All students, members of the faculty, and public officials in both Mississippi and the Nation will be able, it is hoped, to… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
What the members of the Church need, more than anything else, are strong testimonies of Jesus Christ and the gospel He restored.… — John Bytheway Copy Share Image
The franchise and the virus work on the same principle, what thrives in one place will thrive in another. You just have… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Unlike proportionality, progression provides no principle which tells us what the relative burden of different persons ought to be the argument based… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Ours is the only religion that does not depend on a person or persons; it is based upon principles. At the same… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I said after 2006 that Republicans didn't just lose our majority, we lost our way. I mean, our party walked away from… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
There is only one power and one dictatorship whose organisation is salutary and feasible: it is that collective, invisible dictatorship of those… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
I come to you with only Karate, Empty Hands. I have no weapons, but should I be forced to defend myself, my… — Ed Parker Copy Share Image
“Reforms will come as all great reforms have always come in ridding us of evils against both man and animal--not as we… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
And now one of the greatest and most fundamental principles of the Cause of God is to shun and avoid entirely the… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
In his youth, Wordsworth sympathized with the French Revolution, went to France, wrote good poetry and had a natural daughter. At this… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Give a man a noble cause and he would fight to the death for what he believed in,but get the woman he… — Mike Gayle Copy Share Image
Experimental work provides the strongest evidence for scientific realism. This is not because we test hypotheses about entities. It is because entities… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
I love America. I'm concerned about America and I believe the heart and soul of conservatives and Republicans recognize that the principles… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Napoleon, who had an aversion to the moral laxity of the eighteenth century, which he blamed on the domination of society by… — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share Image
The first issue to be settled is whether socialism has a right to exist. Are its allegations concerning the present system true?… — John Bates Clark Copy Share Image
A man must not only stand for the right principles, but he must also fight for them. Those who fight for principle… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The whole contains nothing which is not or its advantage; and all natures indeed have this common principle, but the nature of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The knowledge that mankind needs is not the way or principle which has an absolute existence, but the particular truths for here… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior to authority is as hypocritical as the religion that… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is… — Henry George Copy Share Image
But the basic principle that we’re going to have to see some of this debt written down, that the government is going… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
A sovereignty is always presumed to act upon principles of justice, and if, from mistake or oversight, it does injury to a… — Roger B. Taney Copy Share Image
The ultimate design of the Mysteries ... was to lead us back to the principles from which we descended, ... a perfect… — Plato Copy Share Image
The nation was founded and "dedicated," to use Lincoln's language in the "Gettysburg Address," to equality as a "self-evident truth." But this… — Ronald Takaki Copy Share Image