#principle

At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't mean that you can't think of overarching ethical principles you would want people to follow in all kinds of places. ↗

— Peter Singer

#cultures #descriptive #develop #different #different cultures

Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles. ↗

— Red Skelton

#cannot #care #forming #happiness #misery

Anything can happen in SF. And the fact that nothing ever does happen in SF is only due to the poverty of our imaginations, we who write it or edit it or read it. But SF can in principle deal with anything. ↗

— John Sladek

#deal #does #due #edit #ever

There is only one principle of war and that's this. Hit the other fellow, as quickly as you can, as hard as you can, where it hurts him most, when he ain't lookin'. ↗

— William Slim

#hard #him #hit #hurts #most

One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may. ↗

— Joseph Smith, Jr.

#fundamental #fundamental principles #grand #may #mormonism

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#alas #contentment #grandeur #happiness #height

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#anvil #everyday #hammered #honed #living

Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#making #never #principle #reach #stage

I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius. ↗

— Leo Szilard

#concludes #democratic #draw #favor #genius

It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#lonely #principled #usually