#principles

The individual makes a clear effort to define moral values and principles that have validity and application apart from the authority of the groups of persons holding them and apart from the individual's own identification with the group. ↗

— Lawrence Kohlberg

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Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome. ↗

— Benjamin Whichcote

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Peace Corps helps promote global acceptance of the principles of international peace and non-violent co-existence among people of diverse cultures and systems of government. ↗

— Sam Farr

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Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far. ↗

— Louis Farrakhan

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It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language. ↗

— Kenneth Burke

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This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. ↗

— William Burroughs

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Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing. ↗

— Marilyn Ferguson

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I believe we have become paralyzed, paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times. ↗

— Chris Christie

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