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"Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by a more modest and more realistic principle - the principle that the fight against avoidable misery should be a recognized aim of public policy, while the increase of happiness should be left, in the main, to private initiative." »Karl Popper
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"The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military." »William Orville Douglas
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""There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments, and which can not fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation."" »Herbert Spencer
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"The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men." »John Randolph
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"Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality." »Albert Schweitzer
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"All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates Art far more than Art imitates life." »Oscar Wilde
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"There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. - from Live Without principle" »Henry David Thoreau
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"The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life." »Albert Pike
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"A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment." »Walter Lippman
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"It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it." »Arnold J. Toynbee
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"life is a game in which the rules are constantly changing nothing spoils a game more than those who take it seriously. Adultery Phooey You should never subjugate yourself to another nor seek the subjugation of someone else to yourself. If you follow that Crispian principle you will be able to say 'Phooey,' too, instead of reaching for your gun when you fancy yourself betrayed." »Quentin Crisp
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"To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle." »Confucius
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"A precedent embalms a principle." »Benjamin Disraeli
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"Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want." »Joseph Wood Krutch
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"It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies." »Arthur Calwell
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"We talk on principle, but we act on interest." »Walter Savage Landor
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"The time has come for all good men to rise above principle." »Huey Long
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"As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything." »George Carlin
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"I am a man of principle, and one of my basic principles is flexibility." »Everett Dirksen
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"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end." »Benjamin Disraeli
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"Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not." »Henry Fielding
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"Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act." »Claude A. Helvetius
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"Where principle is involved, be deaf to expediency." »James Webb
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"Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle." »Epictetus
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"So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world." »Immanuel Kant
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"Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principle one was that they escaped teething." »Mark Twain
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"There is only one principle of war and that's this. Hit the other fellow, as quickly as you can, as hard as you can, where it hurts him most, when he ain't lookin'." »Sir William Joseph Slim
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"I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple." »Albert Einstein
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"The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice." »George Eliot
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"The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice." »George Eliot
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