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It's not that I'm not willing to compromise. But I won't compromise on principles. — Ann Marie Buerkle
The great principle of Justice: prevent crime rather than punish it. All that is needed to execute a guilty man is a firing squad or… — Augusto Roa Bastos
It is the great glory as well as the great threat of science that everything which is in principle possible can be done if the… — Peter Medawar
For me, the writing life doesn't just happen when I sit at the writing desk. It is a life lived with a centering principle, and… — Julia Alvarez
Humans are addicted to the hope for a final reckoning, but intellectual humility requires that we resist the temptation to assume that tools of the… — Thomas Nagel
The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one… — Benjamin Tucker
And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming… — Benjamin Tucker
The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one… — Benjamin Tucker
An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles. — Murray Bookchin
The ecological principle of unity in diversity grades into a richly mediated social principle; hence my use of the term social ecology. — Murray Bookchin
Anarchism is no patent solution for all human problems, no Utopia of a perfect social order, as it has often been called, since on principle… — Rudolf Rocker
The principle that the majority have a right to rule the minority, practically resolves all government into a mere contest between two bodies of men,… — Lysander Spooner
So much the worse, it may be, for a particular meeting: but the meeting is the individual, which on evolution principles, must be sacrificed for… — Arthur Cayley
We need to understand enough of modern thought to identify the ways it blocks us from living out the Gospel the way God intends, both… — Nancy Pearcey
The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that… — James Hutton
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to assume that their president, hostile to the principles that formed the… — David Shapiro
Surely nowhere in the world do oppression and persecution based solely on the color of the skin appear more hateful and hideous than in the… — Mary Church Terrell
A basic principle of American justice holds that a bad man has the same rights as a good man. — Massad Ayoob
No man was ever a good soldier but the man who goes into the battle determined to conquer, or not to come back from the… — Daniel O'Connell
The principle of my political life ... is that all amelioration and improvements in political institutions can be obtained by persevering in a perfectly peaceable… — Daniel O'Connell

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