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«In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.»
Author: Anna Jameson
(Essayist)
| Keywords:
fanaticism, morals, moral principle, motive, principle, wickedness
«Moral principle is the foundation of law.»
Author: Ronald D. Dworkin
| About:
Law and lawyers,
Morality,
Principles
| Keywords:
foundation, moral principle, The Foundation
«I was raised the old-fashioned way, with a stern set of moral principles: Never lie, cheat, steal or knowingly spread a venereal disease. Never speed up to hit a pedestrian or, or course, stop to kick a pedestrian who has already been hit. From which it followed, of course, that one would never ever -- on pain of deletion from dozens of Christmas card lists across the country -- vote Republican.»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
| Keywords:
across the country, card, Christmas Card, deletion, dozens, fashioned, knowingly, lists, moral principle, old country, Old Course, old fashioned, pedestrian, pedestrians, speed up, stern, venereal, venereal disease
«One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting»
Author: Jimmy Carter
(President)
| About:
Nations,
Peace,
Principles
| Keywords:
basic principle, confrontations, moral principle, reconciliation, resorting
«All universal moral principles are idle fancies.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
fancied, fancies, fancying, idle, idled, idling, moral, moral principle, principles, universal, Universals
«Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life.»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
| Keywords:
grandeur, humblest, in force, moral character, moral force, moral principle, The Force
«Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| About:
Principles
| Keywords:
bond, looser, moral principle, pecuniary, principle
«It is almost systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no difference between right and wrong.»
Author: Anatole France
(Writer)
| Keywords:
constitute, furnishes, moral principle, respected, right and wrong, systematically
«I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.»
«How necessary was the care of the Creator in making the moral principle so much a part of our constitution as that no errors reasoning or of speculation might lead us astray from its observance in practice.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
astray, in practice, moral principle, observance, speculation
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