Quotes of: Fundamental-principles Keyword

...Communism, it's a reactive formation derived from capitalism. For this reason it's less flexible and has a lower survival potential. The days of laissez-faire capitalism are completely dead, and the assumptions of nineteenth-century Communism are ...

William S. Burroughs

Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic

On Certainty

A man’s principles are his own. Man starts flip-flopping on what he believes based on outside influences and he may as well run for congress.

Dead On My Feet

Don’t let your principles sit idle on a plaque. Bring them to life.

Dare to Serve: How to Drive Superior Results by Serving Others

All religions are good 'in principle' - but unfortunately this abstract Good has only rarely prevented their practitioners from behaving like bastards.

Farewell to Reason

I believe that leadership principles are timeless and apply across all spectrum of life.

F(X) Leadership Unleashed!

The so-called symptoms of disease are manifestations of an inherent principle of the organism to restore healthy function and to resist offending agents and influences.

Getting Well

Three of the ten principles governing the City of Joy are (a) tell the truth, (b) stop waiting to be rescued, and (c) give away what you want the most.

In the Body of the World

Wisdom is the principal thing. The principle to discover the principal thing is "the fear of the Lord". Fear God and be wise.

Creeds for Aspiring Achievers

Children learn many principles of natural law at a very early age. For example: they learn that when one child has picked up an apple or a flower, it is his, and that his associates must not take it from him against his will.

Lysander Spooner

All research in the cultural sciences in an age of specialization, once it is oriented towards a given subject matter through particular settings of problems and has established its methodological principles, will consider the analysis of the data as...

Max Weber

What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation.

Hans Hofmann

Too often, complaint is not about principled objection on moral grounds, but opportunistic objection on grounds of self-interest. To rectify this, we need to work on mastering the art of complaint.

Julian Baggini

Politics was at once clinical and human, driven by principles and passions that he (the leader) had to master and harness for the good of the whole.

American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

I have always believed in the principle that immediate survival is more important than long-term survival.

Imagining Canadian Literature: The Selected Letters

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

Intellectual Autobiography: Ideas on Literature, Philosophy and Religion

Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry.

Reconstruction in Philosophy

Had you but seen it, I promise you, your high-minded principles would have melted like candle wax. Never would you have wished such beauty away.

Revolution

What separates or unites people is not their language, their laws, their customs, their principles, but the way they hold their knife and fork.

Suite Française

A principle to remember is that saying yes to His directive will always result in advancing the gospel message and a resulting blessing on those to whom God directs it.

The Sifted Generation

Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature, that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so secures tranquility.

Meditations