Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes, Law Quotes, Principles Quotes

Law grows, and though the principles of law remain unchanged, yet (and it is one of the advantages of the common law) their application is to be changed with the changing circumstances of the times. Some persons may call this retrogression, I call it progression of human opinion.

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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.

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Behavior, n. Conduct, as determined, not by principle, but by breeding.

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The weak and misbegotten shall perish: first principle of our brotherly love. And they shall be given every assistance.

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I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.

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Evolution is an organizing principle and when we call it a theory, we mean it's a theory, we don't mean that it's a belief that someone holds.

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It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than it is to apply them.

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The best principles in our lives were those which we heard from our mothers through our ears.

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Well, sir, you never can tell. That's a principle in life with me, sir, if you'll excuse my having such a thing.

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Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

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I am comfortable that the principles that I articulated were never compromised.

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Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it boasts all the time of the incentive it provides to both to do their best! . . . The reason the Capitalist system has worked so far without jamming for more than a few months at a time, and then only in places, is that it has not yet succeeded in making a conquest of human nature so complete that everybody acts on strictly business principles.

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The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.

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If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

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I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system.

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There are some with whom we may study in common, but we shall find them unable to go along with us to principles. Perhaps we may go on with them to principles, but we shall find them unable to get established in those along with us. Or if we may get so established along with them, we shall find them unable to weigh occurring events along with us.

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Love requires that true education should be easily accessible to all and should be of use to every villager in this daily life. The emphasis laid on the principle of spending every minute of one's life usefully is the best education for citizenship.

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Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives

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To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle [....] Without cruelty there is no festival.

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A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad.

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