The principles are important. First, the interest of the state or society counts for everything, that of the individual for nothing. Second,… — Plato Copy Share Image
There is a very broad theory that society gets the right to hang, as the individual gets the right to defend himself.… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
In the law, rights are islands of empowerment. . . . Rights contain images of power, and manipulating those images, either visually… — Patricia J. Williams Copy Share Image
If what was said in the Ethics is true, that the happy life is the life according to virtue lived without impediment,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A spacecraft is a metaphor of national inspiration: majestic, technologically advanced, produced at dear cost and entrusted with precious cargo, rising above… — Gregg Easterbrook Copy Share Image
The Sermon on the Mount does not provide humanity with a complete guide to personal, social and economic problems. It sets forth… — Robert McCracken Copy Share Image
Action from principle, the perception and the performance of right, changes things and relations; it is essentially revolutionary, and does not consist… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nowadays, mindfulness has become a catch-all word, but the general principle of trying to be more conscious and aware in our daily… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
On the philosophical level, both Buddhism and modern science share a deep suspicion of any notion of absolutes, whether conceptualize as a… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I have come to deal with principles. I have only to preach that God comes again and again, and that He came… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There is a conceptual depth as well as a purely visual depth. The first is discovered by science; the second is revealed… — Ernst Cassirer Copy Share Image
That's why it's always worth having a few philosophers around the place. One minute it's all is truth beauty and is beauty… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Two simple principles lie at the bottom of the whole matter, and they may be precipitated into two rules. The first is… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle: and patriotism… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
From millions of men . . . one man must step forward who with apodictic force will form granite principles from the… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I had to really do some studying and examination of my own songwriting and I realized that, there's not a formula by… — Andy Wilkinson Copy Share Image
