While brother Joseph was referring to the provinces of God, I was led to reflect that there is no act, no principle,… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Norms appearing in the form of law entitle actors to exercise their rights or liberties. However, one cannot determine which of these… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
The political system of the United States is essentially extra-European. To stand in firm and cautious independence of all entanglement in the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
It [the free market] is an organizational way of doing things, featuring openness, which enables millions of people to cooperate and compete… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
If it is not totalitarian to arrest a man and detain him, when you cannot charge him with any offence against any… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern, which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one state, incompatible with the existence of… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
I had a parakeet that used to fly around the house and crash into these huge mirrors my mother put in. Ever… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
We must not descend to the level of those who perpetrated Tuesday's violence by targeting individuals based on their race, their religion,… — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
It is the basic principle of spiritual life that we learn the deepest things in unknown territory. Often it is when we… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Three principles - the conformability of nature to herself, the applicability of the criterion of simplicity, and the utility of certain parts… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
Civil Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of Power in Nature for the use and convenience of man; being… — Thomas Tredgold Copy Share Image
Briefly, in the act of composition, as an instrument there intervenes and is most potent, fire, flaming, fervid, hot; but in the… — Georg Ernst Stahl Copy Share Image
It must appear impossible, that theism could, from reasoning, have been the primary religion of human race, and have afterwards, by its… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“So, at the turn of the third millennium, you have chosen to base your principles on a collection of contradictory texts –… — Cliff James Copy Share Image
I am very much into politics, but what interests me is sacred principles applied to that area. You know, many people are… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Unless we realize that the essence of Nazism is also an attempt to solve a universal problem of Western civilization - that… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Part of China's strategic planning is to make their universities among the top level of the world, and I think they understand… — Stephen A. Schwarzman Copy Share Image
I was raised the old-fashioned way, with a stern set of moral principles: Never lie, cheat, steal or knowingly spread a venereal… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences-makes them, as the poets tell… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Teachings and ideologies subversive to the fundamental principles of this great Republic, which are contrary to the Constitution of the United States,… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Almost all the greatest discoveries in astronomy have resulted from what we have elsewhere termed Residual Phenomena, of a qualitative or numerical… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
The beautiful is and remains beautiful though it arouse no emotion whatever, and though there be no one to look at it.… — Eduard Hanslick Copy Share Image
Listen to me: Life is not about principles; it's about happiness.' 'But if you don't have any principles, and if you don't… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances. A tactic which allows… — John Berger Copy Share Image
The most important form of incremental change is the decision by the individual to become vegan. Veganism, or the eschewing of all… — Gary L. Francione 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
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
When we assume God to be a guiding principle well, sure enough, a god is usually characteristic of a certain system of… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“So we see that even when Fortuna spins us downward, the wheel sometimes halts for a moment and we find ourselves in… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
I can say-not as a patriotic bromide, but with full knowledge of the necessary metaphysical, epistemological , ethical, political and esthetic roots-that… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The safety of a republic depends essentially on the energy of a common national sentiment; on a uniformity of principles and habits;… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
So it can be for us as we allow the stirrings of hope to motivate us to action; and then as we… — David S. Baxter Copy Share Image
Income and inheritance taxes imply the denial of private property, and in that are different in principle from all other taxes. The… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
Living in the present moment means living according to truth and principle (but not according to hard rigid dogma) flexibly applied in… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
What was fun for me with this book [Lincoln in the Bardo] was to start out with the principle that went, "We're… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“We defend with our lives the petty principles which divide us. The common principle, which is the establishment of the empire of… — Henry Miller 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
The theory of medicine, therefore, presents what is useful in thought, but does not indicate how it is to be applied in… — Avicenna Copy Share Image
There was no opposition organized against Bela Kun. Like Lenin he surrounded himself with commissaries having absolute authority. of the 32 principle… — Leon V. DePoncins Copy Share Image