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#principle

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What should have died along with communism is the belief that modern societies can be run on a single principle, whether that of planning under the general will or that of free-market allocations.


Charles Taylor


#politics #principles #society #communism

A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.


Friedrich Nietzsche


#hypocrisy #inconsistancy #principles #temperament #hypocrisy

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.


George Packer


#compromise #ideology #principles #values #ideology

The bird dares to break the shell, then the shell breaks open and the bird can fly openly. This is the simplest principle of success. You dream, you dare and and you fly.


Israelmore Ayivor


#birds #break #can-do-spirit #dare #dare-to-win

Now this was one of the things I had been brought up to eschew like disgrace; it being held by my father neither the part of a Christian nor yet of a gentleman to set his own livelihood and fish for that of others, on the cast of painted pasteboard.


Robert Louis Stevenson


#political #principles #inspirational

Principles are what people have instead of God. To be a Christian means among other things to be willing if necessary to sacrifice even your highest principles for God's or your neighbour's sake the way a Christian pacifist must be willing to pick up a baseball bat if there's no other way to stop a man from savagely beating a child. Jesus didn't forgive his executioners on principle but because in some unimaginable way he was able to love them. 'Principle' is an even duller word than 'Religion'.


Frederick Buechner


#ethics #jesus #love #morality #principles

In order every one in our homeland learns principles of democracy and the peaceful transition of power, and in order to stabilize and develop multiple choices in democratic practice.


Ali A. Saleh


#democracy #democratic #develop #every #homeland

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.


Kong Fu Zi


#principle #right #see #want

We are not making this demand for the sake of a principle, but in the interests of the proletarian class.


Clara Zetkin


#demand #interests #making #principle #proletarian

We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation.


Mahmoud Abbas


#committed #consultation #democracy #national #popular






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