Quotes by category:Principles

The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.

Igor Stravinsky

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Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

Honore de Balzac

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Anybody who witnesses the suffering of animals and has a glimmer of hope of reducing that suffering can't take the position that it's all or nothing. We have to be pragmatic. Screw the principle.

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It's important for me to fight for principles. But I am not willing to cope with the nastiness of politics anymore and the endless destructive confrontations that it leads to.

Ingrid Betancourt

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if we don't stand for something, you may be sure we will fall for... by Irene Dunne

if we don't stand for something, you may be sure we will fall for anything.

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A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.

Henry Ward Beecher

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As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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In America, we've got to get back to these base principles of wha... by Irvine Welsh

In America, we've got to get back to these base principles of what democracy is.

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Act so that the maxim of your act could be made the principle of... by Immanuel Kant

Act so that the maxim of your act could be made the principle of a universal law.

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In teaching, the other main problem related to type is the students’ interest. Intuitives and sensing types differ greatly in what they find interesting in any subject even if they like, that is, are interested in, the same subjects. Intuitives like the principle, the theory, the why. Sensing types like the practical application, the what and the how.

Isabel Briggs Myers

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A great deal has been written about personal power by Carlos Casteneda, and I find his first four books valuable. Of the experiences themselves, who knows? But the principles that are presented are quite valuable for one who seeks power.

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Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for... by Immanuel Kant

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

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Human freedom is realised in the adoption of humanity as an end in itself, for the one thing that no-one can be compelled to do by another is to adopt a particular end. - 'Metaphysical Principles of Virtue

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Magic could not be measured and explained in scientific terms, for magic grew through destroying the very natural principles that made science as people knew it impossible.

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To be "here and now," in principle, is just for once. And then yo... by Isabelle Huppert

To be "here and now," in principle, is just for once. And then you have to repeat that.

Isabelle Huppert

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The ideal of the supreme being is nothing but a regulative principle of reason which directs us to look upon all connection in the world as if it originated from an all-sufficient necessary cause.

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The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

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Justice was revenge wrapping itself in a cloak of high principle. by Ivan Klíma

Justice was revenge wrapping itself in a cloak of high principle.

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We assume a common sense as the necessary condition of the universal communicability of our knowledge, which is presupposed in every logic and every principle of knowledge that is not one of skepticism.

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The gross debaucheries and atrocious cruelties are covered with a resplendent mental veil because of the systematic exposition of the philosophic principles in all fields of vice. Its justification by logical method as well as by precepts and examples only makes vice more horrible in effect, both for degenerate and normal beings

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