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Principles Quotes by Xunzi
- When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.
- Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of…
- Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and…
- A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them,…
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- No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad… — Thomas Jefferson
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- Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. — Ambrose Bierce
- In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear. — Kofi Annan
- Some reasonable term ought to be allowed to enable aliens to get rid of foreign and acquire American attachments; to learn the… — Alexander Hamilton
- Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were… — Arthur Conan Doyle