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Principles
«There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation»
Author: Herbert Spencer
(Philosopher)
| About:
Arguments,
Information,
Principles
| Keywords:
Against the man, arguments, bar, barred, barring, contempt, everlasting, fail, information, investigation, investigations, principle, prior, proof
«Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle of delight!»
«Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government and I will lead it as party of government.»
Author: Tony Blair
(Prime Minister)
| About:
Government,
Power,
Principles
| Keywords:
barren, futile, Party of, This is a
«Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.»
«Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.»
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
(President)
| About:
Principles,
Rules
| Keywords:
necessarily, sacred
«Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life, and that to destroy, to harm, or to hinder life is evil»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Evil,
Life,
Morality,
Principles
| Keywords:
affords, assisted, assisting, assists, enhancing, fundamental, fundamental principle, hinder, hindered, Maintaining, namely, reverence
«There is no arguing with one who denies first principles»
Author: Latin Proverb
| About:
Principles
| Keywords:
arguing, denies, first principle, first principles, principles
«Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Principles
| Keywords:
except, Fed, fed up, feed in, force, principles, well-fed