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

We love your adherence to democratic principles and to democratic processes.

You know, Arabs are critical of United States foreign policy, but they also associate the U.S. with democratic principles and opportunity.

Dangerous principles impose upon our understanding, emasculate our spirits, and spoil our temper.

Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.

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

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.

Selfishness is the grand moving principle of nine-tenths of our actions.

One thing I certainly never was made for, and that is to put principles on and off at the dictation of a party, as a lackey changes his livery at his master's command.

There are always principles to be depended upon in this matter of taxation ... Amidst the inconsistent, the bewildering representations offered, a certain number must be in accordance with true principles ...

If a principle exists it must be immutable, for that is what a principle is - a truth standing apart from the mood of the times.

By doing what our assailant least expects us to do, we may throw him completely off. ... what he usually least suspects is instant, violent counterattack, so the principle of aggressiveness is closely tied to threat of surprise.

This is not a time to back away from the principles that this country was founded on.

Men and times change-but principles-never.

Sometimes, for principle, your gonna have to kick some ass.

Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away.

Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.

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.

Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.

The Church as a divine society possess an internal principle of life which is capable of assimilating the most diverse materials and imprinting her own image upon them.

Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.

Its a matter of principle. If Jews born in Brooklyn have a right to a state in Palestine then Palestinians born in Jerusalem have a right to a state in Palestine.

Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.

The only way to remain great is to keep on applying the fundamental principles that made you great.

The biggest reason that positive endings don't happen is because employees are trained on policies and rules rather than principles.

Price above Principle makes you a Prostitute.

The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form.

[The Constitution] will not be saved in Washington. It will be saved by the citizens of this nation who love and cherish freedom...men and women who will subscribe to and abide the principles of the Constitution.

Right and wrong as moral principles do not change. They are applicable and reliable determinants whether the situations with which we deal are simple or complicated. There is always a right and wrong to every question which requires our solution.

I don't believe you outsource your convictions and principles to people.

Music is a science which should have definite rules; these rules should be drawn from an evident principle; and this principle cannot really be known to us without the aid of mathematics.

emotion is first of all and in principle an accident

Principles have a way of enduring, as do the few irreducible individuals who maintain allegiance to them.

Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause -it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

Sovereignty is a question of principle. We must tell the Iraqis: you are a sovereign people. And you are in charge of your own future.

As the lesser is always found within the greater, so this principle holds true with regards to time and the eternal.

The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility.

A general principle for all user interface design is to go through all of your design elements and remove them one at a time.

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

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

The Internet is like a town that leaves its streets unmarked on the principle that people who don't already know don't belong

The second principle of magic: things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed.

Ministers who threaten death and destruction employ weapons of weakness. Argument and kindness are alone effectual, flavored by the principles of Divine love.

Though the ancients were ignorant of the principles of Christianity there were in them the germs of its spirit.

In some things, we Americans leave to other countries the carrying out of the principle that stands at the head of our Declaration of Independence.

We acquire a testimony of the principles of the gospel by obediently trying to live them.

The reduced variability of small populations is not always due to accidental gene loss, but sometimes to the fact that the entire population was started by a single pair or by a single fertilized female. These 'founders' of the population carried with them only a very small proportion of the variability of the parent population. This 'founder' principle sometimes explains even the uniformity of rather large populations, particularly if they are well isolated and near the borders of the range of the species.

Magnanimity is above circumstance; and any virtue which depends on that is more of constitution than of principle.

I am greatly pleased with the public, authentic isolation in which we two, you and I, now find ourselves. It is wholly in accord with our attitude and our principles.

But principles defended at the expense of pragmatic application is the business of priests.

To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to have some kind of guiding principle. A belief of some kind

My guiding principle is that prosperity can be shared. We can create wealth together. The global economy is not a zero-sum game.

If you are not willing to take pain to live by your principles, there is no point in having principles.

A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge.

A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence.

Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism, are all too frequently those who . . . ignore some of the basic principles of Americanism-the right to criticize, the right to hold unpopular beliefs, the right to protest, the right of independent thought.

All universal moral principles are idle fancies.

Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.

You must place interest in principle above interest on principal.

At age 14, my belief systems began to change about myself, about God, about humans, about values, and about moral standards. I also began to align myself with the principles that are laid down by the Creator in the book called the Bible.

A principle is a truth that is established by God that can never be changed.

Every conscientious husband and wife should measure their marriage by the unchanging standard of the principles found in God's Word.

I can guarantee people, then, that if they learn, discover, understand, explore, and apply the same principles that I learned, that success is predictable.

Principles are laws that are established by the creator or the manufacturer by which a product functions. If you violate those laws, then you produce malfunction, which is what we call failure. If you obey those laws and align yourself with those laws, then you are guaranteed success.

I went from one state of life to another state of life by obeying, understanding, and applying the principles that are laid down in the Bible.

The libertarian must never advocate or prefer a gradual, as opposed to an immediate and rapid, approach to his goal. For by doing so, he undercuts the overriding importance of his own goals and principles. And if he himself values his own goals so lightly, how highly will others value them.

Placing the state in charge of moral principles is equivalent to putting the proverbial fox in charge of the chicken coop.

Like life and people, it is full of paradoxes. Etiquette is based on tradition, and yet it can change. Its ramifications are trivialities, but its roots are in great principles.

We will never obtain God's kind of marriage simply by going along with the crowd, doing what everybody else does. We have to dig deep into the heart of God to discover His principles.

The reason why principles are so important is because principles make life predictable.

I discovered that success has very little to do with education or race or disposition; it has more to do with principles and following those principles.

I teach them correct principles and they govern themselves.

To get salvation we must not only do some things, but everything which God has commanded...The object with me is to obey and teach others to obey God in just what he tells us to do. It mattereth not whether the principle is popular or unpopular; I will always maintain a true principle even if I stand alone in it.

Place principle above all else.

Metaphysical ghosts cannot be killed, because they cannot be touched; but they may be dispelled by dispelling the twilight in which shadows and solidities are easily confounded. The Vital Principle is an entity of this ghostly kind; and although the daylight has dissipated it, and positive Biology is no longer vexed with its visitations, it nevertheless reappears in another shape in the shadowy region of mystery which surrounds biological and all other questions.

Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function, but before they have been replaced with a totally new system of values. It represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and hybrid interregnum that might be called the last gasp of the past.

We cannot fling ourselves into the blank future; we can only call up images from the past. This being so, the important principle follows, that how many images we have largely depends on how much past we have.

America is conservative in fundamental principles... but the principles conserved are liberal and some, indeed, are radical.

The single observation I would offer for your consideration is that some things are beyond your control. You can lose your health to illness or accident. You can lose your wealth to all manner of unpredictable sources. What are not easily stolen from you without your cooperation are your principles and your values. They are your most important possessions and, if carefully selected and nurtured, will well serve you and your fellow man.

Never let us confuse what is legal with what is right. Everything Hitler did in Nazi Germany was legal, but it was not right.

We must spread our principles, not with words but with deeds, for this is the most popular, the most potent, and the most irresistible form of propaganda.

The peoples' revolution .... will arrange its revolutionary organisation from the bottom up and from the periphery to the centre, in keeping with the principle of liberty.

There is only one power and one dictatorship whose organisation is salutary and feasible: it is that collective, invisible dictatorship of those who are allied in the name of our principle.

The very act of faith by which we receive Christ is an act of the utter renunciation of self, and all its works, as a ground of salvation. It is really a denial of self, and a grounding of its arms in the last citadel into which it can be driven, and is, in its principle, inclusive of every subsequent act of self-denial by which sin is forsaken or overcome.

To be energetic and firm where principle demands it, and tolerant in all else, is not easy. It is not easy to abhor wickedness, and oppose it with every energy, and at the same time to have the meekness and gentleness of Christ, becoming all things to all men for the truth's sake. The energy of patience, the most godlike of all, is not easy.

The strength that we want is not a brute, unregulated strength; the beauty that we want is no mere surface beauty; but we want a beauty on the surface of life that is from the central force of principle within, as the beauty on the cheek of health is from the central force at the heart.

I sort of use as my guiding principle that show The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. Whenever possible, do the stupid thing.

There are very deep and restrictive principles that determine the nature of human language and are rooted in the specific character of the human mind

The basic principle, rarely violated, is that what conflicts with the requirements of power and privilege does not exist.

A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer.

If you claim to have a theory that deduces unexpected consequences from nontrivial principles, let's see it.

Under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control.

The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scripture ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws.

GOP represents people, but Dems communicate better.

Polls are biased left; GOP wins on the issues.

Baby Boomers becoming Republicans while Dems become outdated.

The money in the schools overpowers the principles of the purpose.

By building a simple system, with just a few guiding principles, eBay was open to organic growth.

Liberals exploit weakness; conservatives offer strength.

Indicate which principles you support regarding affirmative action and discrimination. 1. The federal government should discontinue affirmative action programs. 2. The federal government should prosecute cases of discrimination in the public sector. 3. The federal government should prosecute cases of discrimination in the private sector.