#principles

Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

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We should be exploring consciousness at the neural level and higher, where the arrow of causal analysis points up toward such principles as emergence and self-organization. ↗

— Michael Shermer

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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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A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men. ↗

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Principles are what people have instead of God. To be a Christian means among other things to be willing if necessary to sacrifice even your highest principles for God's or your neighbour's sake the way a Christian pacifist must be willing to pick up a baseball bat if there's no other way to stop a man from savagely beating a child. Jesus didn't forgive his executioners on principle but because in some unimaginable way he was able to love them. 'Principle' is an even duller word than 'Religion'. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

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He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. ↗

— Aesop

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