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#principle

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #principle




In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.


Kofi Annan


#dear #holds #important #justice #lose

The United Nations, whose membership comprises almost all the states in the world, is founded on the principle of the equal worth of every human being.


Kofi Annan


#being #comprises #equal #every #founded

The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam; when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith.


Karen Armstrong


#central #essential #faith #five #islam

The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular.


Rudolf Arnheim


#created #general #however #itself #man

A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.


Sai Baba


#back #becomes #built #foundations #ground

The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.


Theodor Adorno


#always #ethics #first #only #principle

CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake here. The principle is that Dan Rather doesn't work for the police, and that people that speak to Dan Rather understand that he's a journalist and not a police agent.


Floyd Abrams


#because #believed #believes #cbs #dan

The principle though remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will fight again.


Floyd Abrams


#cbs #fight #fought #hard #important

The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.


John Acton


#absolute power #authority #based #between #choices

I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle.


Henry Addington


#hate #i #lack #liberality #nine






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