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Moral principles have lost their distinctiveness. For modern man, absolute right and absolute wrong are a matter of what the majority is doing. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it boasts all the… — George Bernard Shaw
The Bush Administration do have moral values. Their moral values are very explicit: shine the boots of the rich and the powerful, kick everybody else… — Noam Chomsky
The first issue to be settled is whether socialism has a right to exist. Are its allegations concerning the present system true? Is industry proceeding… — John Bates Clark
Socialist thought owes its appeal to the young largely to its visionary character; the very courage to indulge in Utopian thought is in this respect… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics. — David Korten
The principle is competing against yourself. — Steve Young
The great secret to success is that there are no secrets of success. There are only timeless principles that have proven effective throughout the centuries. — Brian Tracy
Adopting a central organizing principle means embarking on an all-out effort to use every policy and program, every law and institution, to halt the destruction… — Al Gore
Our real battlefield today is Asia and our real battle is the one between democracy and communism. . . . We have to prove to… — Eleanor Roosevelt
[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power. — Walter Raleigh
There is so much each one of us can do to make a difference. We are at a dangerous juncture in the history of mankind.… — Bianca Jagger
We've got to take back the ideal of justice, we've got to take back this principle of human dignity. We've got to take it back… — Unknown Author
Democracy is based on the majority principle. This is especially true in a country such as ours where the vast majority have been systematically denied… — Nelson Mandela
From the Balkans to Africa, from Asia to the Middle East, we have witnessed the weakening or absence of effective governance leading to the ravaging… — Ban Ki-moon
Without the discovery of uniformities there can be no concepts, no classifications, no formulations, no principles, no laws; and without these no science can exist. — Clyde Kluckhohn
The United States was founded on the idea that all people are endowed with inalienable rights, and that principle has allowed us to work to… — Barack Obama
[The original development of the Spinning Mule was a] continual endeavour to realise a more perfect principle of spinning; and though often baffled, I as… — Samuel Crompton
Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first principles. — Aristotle
In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning any subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and practicable methods for… — Lord Kelvin
Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits upon the undeserving. It is a self-existent principle inherent in the divine… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
We applied a very simple principle: Recognize the facts. Abortion is old as the world. Gay marriage, please - it's older than the world. We… — Jose Mujica
In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate-look to his character. — Noah Webster
Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed. — DeForest Soaries
The danger to which the success of revolutions is most exposed, is that of attempting them before the principles on which they proceed, and the… — Thomas Paine

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