Certain Principles Quotes
14 quotes by 13 authors
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The Whig interpretation of history ... is the tendency in many historians to write on the side of Protestants and Whigs, to praise revolutions provided…
— Herbert Butterfield
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Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your emancipation. You have read yourself into a number of new…
— Henrik Ibsen
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There is a very broad theory that society gets the right to hang, as the individual gets the right to defend himself. Suppose she does;…
— Wendell Phillips
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Without justice being freely, fully, and impartially administered, neither our persons, nor our rights, nor our property, can be protected. And if these, or either…
— Joseph Story
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Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense advocating them with words. Temperamentally…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an inexorable process of…
— Octavio Paz
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Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the…
— Robert Menzies
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It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this knowledge that we…
— Aristotle
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If I lived in a Communist country today where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I believe I would openly advocate disobeying…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was “legal†and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was “illegal.†It…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly on the move,…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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That decision to commit your life to certain principles and a certain narrative, if I wrote a paper on that, I know I'd find inconsistencies.
— Matt Stone
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We need to get back to reasoning and thinking things through. The future generation is being brought up in greed and without a true understanding…
— Richard Dreyfuss
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Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the…
— Marshall McLuhan
Who Wrote These Certain Principles Quotes
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