Spiritual principles do not change, but we do.
Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise, of health.
To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.
Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.
Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.
There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.
When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are.
Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
Hermes smiled. "I knew a boy once ... oh, younger than you by far. A mere baby, really." , George said. Martha snapped. Hermes ignored them. "One night, when this boy's mother wasn't watching, he sneaked out of their cave and stole some cattle that b...
Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
There's great peace in surrendering to principles
Family preparedness has been a long-established welfare principle.
Policies are ephemeral; principles are eternal.
History is the preceptor of prudence, not principles.
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.
Society will always do better where citizens have a belief in justice, honour and private morality. Where individuals are reduced to the satisfaction of personal appetites society will decline. The need to preserve society is at the very heart of con...
if admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of gain would cease to be an universal problem.
It is easy to sanctify policies or identities by the deaths of victims. It is less appealing, but morally more urgent, to understand the actions of the perpetrators. The moral danger, after all, is never that one might become a victim but that one mi...
In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against totalitarianism. We believe that in this century the paramount moral challenge will be the struggle for gender equality around the...
The sentiments attributed to Christ are in the Old Testament. They were familiar in the Jewish schools and to all the Pharisees, long before the time of Christ, as they were familiar in all the civilizations of the earth — Egyptian, Babylonian, and...
