Principles Quotes - Page 94

What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion will be absurd and ridiculous . . . There are two equally dangerous extremes: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason.

Bion insisted on the principle that "The property of friends is common."

All too often we are more afraid of physical pain than of moral wrong. The cross is the standing evidence of the fact that holiness is a principle for which God would die.

In politics there are no principles, just opportunities

I guess the underlying principle might be, don't make it too easy for them to stereotype you.

[A new all-encompassing national identification system] contradicts some of our most sacrosanct American principles of personal liberty and expectations of privacy and is far in excess of what is needed to provide us with the security and protections we all want.

Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has on several occasions talked about transparency as an absolute principle. I don't personally believe that.

Many states rely on sales tax as their principle source of revenue and do not have a State income tax.

Humanistic ethics is based on the principle that only humans themselves can determine the criterion for virtue and not an authority transcending us.

The fundamental principle in the analysis of propositions containing descriptions is this: Every proposition which we can understand must be composed wholly of constituents with which we are acquainted.

Modern life cannot be constructed on . . . physically strenuous principles. A great deal of work is sedentary, and most manual work exercises only a few specialized muscles.

What Americans were really objecting to had nothing to do with constitutional principles. their objection was not to Parliament's constitutional right to levy certain kinds of taxes as opposed to others, but to its effort to collect any.

An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.

If principle is good for anything, it is worth living up to.

Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away.

Secular progressivism, which attempts to remove God from the public square, is not consistent with the principles that established the USA.

We are committed to a world in which we keep America safe, but we recognize that our power doesn't just flow from our extraordinary military but also flows from the strength in our ideals and our principles and our values.

My guiding principle as president has been to try to do the right thing even when it's not politically convenient.

But the basic principle that we’re going to have to see some of this debt written down, that the government is going to have to support some banks, that others that are not viable, essentially that we’re going to have to do something with those assets.

The Democrats should not waiver on our core beliefs and principles.

[A]lthough the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing.

I am willing to take any measures when it comes to the fundamental principle of human rights.

Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men.

Christianity is the only system of faith which combines religious beliefs with corresponding principles of morality. It builds ethics on religion.