Principles Quotes - Page 60

There is no difference in principle, ... between the economic philosophy of Nazism, socialism, communism, and fascism and that of the American welfare state and regulated economy.

The principles always work if you work the principles.

I am an anarchist, and according to anarchist principles nation states become obstacles to a true humanistic globalization.

The range of socially permissible and desirable satisfaction is greatly enlarged, but through this satisfaction, the Pleasure Principle is reduced deprived of the claims which are irreconcilable with the established society. Pleasure, thus adjusted, generates submission.

As the pleasure principle is unconstrained by a moral compass based on a respect for others, it is increasingly shaped by the need for intense excitement and a never-ending flood of heightened sensations.

The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.

All basic scientists who look to the NCI for funding should know that I will tolerate no retreat on the study of model systems and the pursuit of fundamental biological principles.

There is an infinity of political errors which, being once adopted, become principles.

The foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principle of private morality.

I have made it a principle to give advice that does not serve my personal interest but rather the common interests.

Principles without programs are platitudes.

I will always speak out when someone says that a principle or a rule or a tradition trumps people.

Why may not the Bible and especially the New Testament be read and taught as a divine revelation in school? Where else can the purest principles of morality be learned so clearly or so perfectly as from the New Testament?

Veganism is the application of the principle of abolition in your own life; it represents your recognition that animals are not things. Veganism is the recognition of the moral personhood of nonhuman animals.

It is the basic principle of Marxism that any attempt to reconcile capital and labor so that they both co-operate in peace and prosperity is a betrayal of communism.

No politician has ever yet been able to rule his country, nor has any country ever yet been able to face the world, upon the principles of the Sermon on the Mount.

A hypothesis is empirical or scientific only if it can be tested by experience. A hypothesis or theory which cannot be, at least in principle, falsified by empirical observations and experiments does not belong to the realm of science.

France built its best colony on a principle of exclusion, and failed; England reversed the system, and succeeded.

Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.

Policy and politics generally go contrary to principle.

Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.

I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.

Every principle has a promise.

Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.

Two principles we should always have ready — that there is nothing good or evil save in the will; and that we are not to lead events, but to follow them.