Fixed principles of truth are the only safeguard for youth.
When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.
This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.
It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
The question I should have asked is not what is the rule, but what is the principle.
I have principles and I am not going to be forced to compromise them.
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
Surely the principles of Christianity lead to action as well as meditation.
The way I work with my cinematographer is not based on general principles, but the ideas are triggered by the locations where we shoot.
Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form.
My anxiety level of my own work and what I'm doing and focusing on my art and all of that stuff? That's fundamental.
When you don't understand something, you label it and condemn it" (94) - Danny Glover, "The Fundamental Things
My fundamental tenets are concerned with freedom of the individual; the market isn't perfect, but it's the best available way of allocating resources.
I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.
People are not fundamentally bad. It only takes the smallest of correctives to take care of that tiny minority that wants to disrupt the community.
The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past.
My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right.
Archaeologists have made discoveries that challenge fundamental traditions of Judaism as well as those of Christianity and Islam.
We have a fundamental imperative in our lives to matter to others, to serve others, and to support each other in mattering more.
We see the world through the lens of all our experiences; that is a fundamental part of the human condition.
