| "Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality." »Albert Schweitzer |
| "Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it." »Milan Kundera |
| "The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military." »William Orville Douglas |
| "It was no Insurrection or Rebellion, or even Civil War in any proper sense of these terms... The war... was a war between States regularly organized into two separate Federal Republics... In the beginning, and throughout the contest, the object of the 'Confederates' was to maintain the separate Sovereignty of each State, and the right of self-government, which that necessarily carries with it. The object of the 'Federals,' on the contrary, was to maintain a Centralized Sovereignty over all the States on both sides. This was the fundamental principle involved in the Conflict, which must be kept continually in mind." »Alexander Hamilton Stephens |
| "Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science." »Gary Zukav |
| "Before all else, each of us must take a fundamental risk -- to be true to ourselves." »Jim Webb |
| "The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there." »Yasutani Roshi |
| "The human mind is our fundamental resource." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them." »Bertrand Russell |
| "The most fundamental tragedy of my life is that the ones who I see do not exist and the one who exists I do not see." »Kedar Joshi |
| "Acceptance of dissent is the fundamental requirement of a free society." »Richard Royster |
| "The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development." »Confucius |
| "The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough." »Heinrich Heine |
| "The fundamental error of their matrimonial union that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling." »Thomas Hardy |
| "There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy." »Albert Camus |
| "All the fundamental concepts which make up the kind of people we are today had their modern conception in the Tudor and Stuart periods. For us, that's the milk in the coconut." »Louis Booker Wright |
| "There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life." »Sister Mary Rose McGeady |
| "Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial." »Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield |
| "To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle." »Confucius |
| "The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science." »Albert Einstein |
| "Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty that what we believe is not necessarily true that what we like is not necessarily good and that all questions are open." »Clive |
| "Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want." »Joseph Wood Krutch |
| "A precedent embalms a principle." »Benjamin Disraeli |
| "We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar-that is, a person who continues to learn and inquire-can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide." »Nathan M. Pusey |
| "We talk on principle, but we act on interest." »Walter Savage Landor |
| "As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything." »George Carlin |
| "It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies." »Arthur Calwell |
| "Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle." »Epictetus |
| "We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end." »Benjamin Disraeli |
| "Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not." »Henry Fielding |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
