Quotes by Principles It is contrary to our principles to multiply organizations, since, in all conscience, there are enough of them. And when organizations are created they need individuals to look after them. Swami Vivekananda organizationprinciplesneeds It will not do merely to listen to great principles. You must apply them in the practical field, turn them into constant practice. What will be the good of cramming the high - sounding dicta of the scriptures? You have first to grasp the teachings of the Shastras, and then to work them out in practical life. Do you understand? This is called practical religion. Swami Vivekananda principlesteachingpractice Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed. Theodor Adorno dominationfascismprinciples My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are cheap; you make them because they're right. Theodore Hesburgh decision-makingprinciplesdecision For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles. Theodore Bikel jewish-lifeprinciplesbelieve The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong. Theodor Adorno ethicsprinciplesfirsts Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. And this principle of inertia truly is what is radically evil. Theodor Adorno principlesevilmind I highly venerate the Masonic Institution, under the fullest persuasion that, when its principles are acknowledged and its laws and precepts obeyed, it comes nearest to the Christian religion, in its moral effects and influence, of any institution with which I am acquainted. Theodore Roosevelt principleschristianlaw I believe the world grows near its end, yet is neither old nor decayed, nor will ever perish upon the ruins of its own principles. Thomas Browne principlesbelieveworld Americanism is a question of principle, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace, or creed, or line of descent. Theodore Roosevelt birth-placeprinciplescharacter Vanity is not half a bad principle, if it will but stick to legitimate business. Thomas Chandler Haliburton vanityprincipleshalf O Heavenly Father, convert my religion from a name to a principle! Bring all my thoughts and movements into an habitual reference to Thee! Thomas Chalmers principlesnamesfather God is not related to creatures as though belonging to a different "genus," but as transcending every "genus," and as the principle of all "genera. Thomas Aquinas creaturesdifferentprinciples What can be accomplished by a few principles is not effected by many. But it seems that everything we see in the world can be accounted for by other principles, supposing God did not exist. For all natural things can be reduced to one principle, which is nature, and all voluntary things can be reduced to one principle, which is human reason, or will. Therefore there is no need to suppose God's existence. Thomas Aquinas atheismprinciplesneeds I consider Paine our greatest political thinker. As we have not advanced, and perhaps never shall advance, beyond the Declaration and Constitution, so Paine has had no successors who extended his principles. Thomas A. Edison constitutionpoliticalprinciples For it is necessary in every practical science to proceed in a composite (i.e. deductive) manner. On the contrary in speculative science, it is necessary to proceed in an analytical manner by breaking down the complex into elementary principles. Thomas Aquinas scientific-methodprinciplesscience We ought to cherish the body. Our body's substance is not from an evil principle, as the Manicheans imagine, but from God. And therefore, we ought to cherish the body by the friendship of love, by which we love God. Thomas Aquinas substanceprinciplesevil For creation is not a change, but that dependence of the created existence on the principle from which it is instituted, and thus is of the genus of relation; whence nothing prohibits it Thomas Aquinas understandingprinciplesway One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesn't work on this mirror principle - you don't have an exact replica on the left of what you have on the right. It just doesn't work that way. Thomas Frank mirrorsprincipleswriting The Right of all members of society to form their own beliefs and communicate them freely to others must be regarded as an essential principle of a democratically organized society. Thomas I. Emerson democracyprinciplesreligion«100101102103104105106107108109110»
