#principles

At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't mean that you can't think of overarching ethical principles you would want people to follow in all kinds of places. ↗

— Peter Singer

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So I think ethics is the broader thing that's less focused on prohibitions and is more perhaps looking at principles and questions and ideas about how to live your life. ↗

— Peter Singer

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Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles. ↗

— Red Skelton

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One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may. ↗

— Joseph Smith, Jr.

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Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

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That decision to commit your life to certain principles and a certain narrative, if I wrote a paper on that, I know I'd find inconsistencies. ↗

— Matt Stone

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From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

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In vain shall Great Britain confer upon her colonies the free government and liberal principles of legislation, for which she is distinguished, if she do not carry with her the revelations of God. ↗

— John Strachan

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A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

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After a long, impartial enquiry of the truth, and after much and earnest calling upon God, to give unto me the spirit and revelation in the knowledge of Him, I find myself obliged, both by the principles of reason and Scripture, to embrace the opinion I now hold forth. ↗

— John Biddle

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