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“When we think of eternity, and of the future consequences of all human conduct, what is there in this life that should make any man contradict the dictates of his conscience, the principles of justice, the laws of religion, and of God?”

Thinking Men Should Humans Law Justice Principles Conscience Consequence Eternity This Life Contradiction

Author:William Wilberforce

“The power of administrative bodies to make finding of fact which may be treated as conclusive, if there is evidence both ways, is a power of enormous consequence. An unscrupulous administrator might be tempted to say "Let me find the facts for the people of my country, and I care little who lays down the general principles."”

People Ifs Way May Littles Country Facts Body Might Care Principles Findings Evidence Consequence Let Me Lays Enormous Treated I Care Tempted Administrative Administrators

Author:Charles Evans Hughes

“By consequence I hold that no one ever did, or can do, anything for "society."... Comte invented the term altruism as an antonym for egoism, and it found its way at once into everyone's mouth, although it is utterly devoid of meaning, since it points to nothing that ever existed in mankind; This hybrid or rather this degenerate form of hedonism served powerfully to invest collectivism's principles with a specious moral sanction, and collectivists naturally made the most of it.”

Way Made Form Found Term Can Do Moral Principles Mankind Mouths Consequence Altruism Sanctions Egoism Collectivism Degenerates Hybrid Hedonism

Author:Albert J. Nock

“Three principles - the conformability of nature to herself, the applicability of the criterion of simplicity, and the utility of certain parts of mathematics in describing physical reality - are thus consequences of the underlying law of the elementary particles and their interactions. Those three principles need not be assumed as separate metaphysical postulates. Instead, they are emergent properties of the fundamental laws of physics.”

“Looking back to data, we can see if the consequences are plausible; looking forward to theory, we can see if general principles are suggested.”

Ifs Principles Theory Consequence Data Looking Back Looking Forward Plausible

Book:Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity

Source: Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity

“Sanctification is the outcome and inseparable consequence of regeneration. He who is born again and made a new creature receives a new nature and a new principle and always lives a new life.”

Made Born Principles Creatures Consequence Outcomes New Life Inseparable Born Again Sanctification Regeneration

Book:Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots

Source: Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots

“My principle is to do whatever is right, and leave consequences to him who has the disposal of them.”

Principles Consequence

Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State

“The universe shows us the life of God, or rather it is in itself the life of God. We behold in it his permanent action, the scene upon which his power is exercised, and in which all his attributes are reflected. God is not out of the universe any more than the universe is out of God. God is the principle, the universe is the consequence, but a necessary consequence, without which the principle would be inert, unfruitful, impossible to conceive.”

Shows Would Be Action Universe Principles Impossible Scene Consequence Permanent Attributes

Author:Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

“The material which a scientist actually has at his disposal, his laws, his experimental results, his mathematical techniques, his epistemological prejudices, his attitude towards the absurd consequences of the theories which he accepts, is indeterminate in many ways, ambiguous, and never fully separated from the historical background . This material is always contaminated by principles which he does not know and which, if known, would be extremely hard to test.”

Source: Against Method

“That discipline which corrects the eagerness of worldly passions, which fortifies the heart with virtuous principles, which enlightens the mind with useful knowledge, and furnishes to it matter of enjoyment from within itself, is of more consequence to real felicity than all the provisions which we can make of the goods of fortune.”

“Though the principles of the banking trade may appear somewhat abstruse, the practice is capable of being reduced to strict rules. To depart upon any occasion from those rules, is consequence of some flattering speculation of extraordinary gain, is almost always extremely dangerous, and frequently fatal to the banking company which attempts it.”

May Company Principles Practice Dangerous Capable Consequence Gains Trade Extraordinary Occasions Strict Banking Speculation Flattering Strict Rules

Book:An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“Here we are to remember that in consequence of our opinion that labor is the Father and active principle of wealth, as lands are the Mother, that the state by killing, mutilating, or imprisoning their members do withal punish themselves.”

States Remember Mother Father Wealth Opinion Principles Land Members Consequence Labor Killing Active

Author:William Petty

“Unless we take care to clear the first principles of knowledge from the incumbrance and delusion of words, we may make infinite reasonings upon them to no purpose. We may deduce consequences, and never be the wiser.”

Firsts May Care Purpose Principles Clear Consequence Infinite Take Care Reasoning Delusion Wiser

Book:Berkeley

Source: Berkeley

“We now face the prospect of a kind of global civil war between those who refuse to consider the consequences of civilization's relentless advance and those who refuse to be silent partners in the destruction. More and more people of conscience are joining the effort to resist, but the time has come to make this struggle the central organizing principle of world civilizations.”

People World Kind War Faces Effort Principles Struggle Civilization Conscience Consequence Destruction Silent Refuse Partners Civil War Relentless Joining

Book:Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose

Source: Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose

“It affords a violent prejudice against almost every science, that no prudent man, however sure of his principles, dares prophesy concerning any event, or foretell the remote consequences of things.”

Men Principles Events Consequence Prejudice Dare Violent Prudent

Book:Essays and treatises on several subjects: essays, moral, political and literary

Source: Essays and treatises on several subjects: essays, moral, political and literary

“We're seeing that God's word and His principles do work. They may not work overnight but they are powerful and when we apply them in the way He shows us to apply them in life then we're going to see positive consequences.”

Way May Shows Powerful Principles Seeing Consequence

Author:Alex Kendrick

“Values determine behavior; Principles determine the consequences of behavior.”

Values Principles Behavior Consequence Determine

Author:Stephen Covey

“There are certain yoga laws and principles that are, shall we say, less tangible than others. For example, the law of karma. Science has proven what goes up must come down, but that's about as far as it's gone. To believe that for every action, word, and thought, there is an equal consequence takes something more intuitive, more personal; it's more metaphysical.”

Believe Action Law Certain Principles Gone Example Equal Yoga Consequence Karma Proven Metaphysical Intuitive Tangible Law Of Karma

Author:Bryan Kest

“All my stories and worlds spring from the basic principle of being a slave to the premise, to follow the consequences wherever they may lead without taking any easy or comfortable ways out.”

World Way May Stories Easy Principles Comfortable Spring Consequence Slave Premises Basic Principles

Author:Karin Tidbeck

“It's obvious that there are vast variety of consequentialist views, depending on what we think goodness consists in, what our notion of consequence is, and what level (or levels) of human action we think the principle should be applied.”

Thinking Should Humans Action Levels Views Principles Goodness Consequence Notion Obvious Variety Human Actions

Author:Dale Jamieson

“If you ask me if I have this or that principle, tell me what its consequences are, and then I'll tell you whether I have that principle or not.”

Ifs Asks Principles Consequence Ask Me

Author:Robert Hass

“Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country.”

Want Country Evil Natural Justice Principles Virtue Democracy Consequence Terror Fierce Severe Prompts Natural Consequences Pressing On

Author:Maximilien Robespierre

“Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral principles. Whether we believe in God or karma, ethics is the foundation of every religion.”

Believe Forget Moral Principles Dangerous Politician Ethics Consequence Foundation Karma Believe In God Trust In God Rulers Wise Man Once Said Moral Principles I Believe In Karma

Author:Dalai Lama

“If you claim to have a theory that deduces unexpected consequences from nontrivial principles, let's see it.”

Ifs Principles Theory Consequence Claims Unexpected

Book:Propaganda and the Public Mind: Conversations with Noam Chomsky

Source: Propaganda and the Public Mind: Conversations with Noam Chomsky

“Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say.Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: The requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world -- "No, YOU move.”

Ifs World Believe Country Matter Whole Jobs Moving Nations Principles Tree Politician Consequence Rivers Presses Plant Whole World Odds Requirements

Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“Nature imitates herself. A grain thrown into good ground brings forth fruit; a principle thrown into a good mind brings forth fruit. Everything is created and conducted by the same Master-the root, the branch, the fruits-the principles, the consequences.”

Mind Nature Principles Masters Consequence Roots Fruit Branches Thrown Grain Good Mind

Author:Blaise Pascal

“The inward persuasion that we are free to do, or not to do a thing, is but a mere illusion. If we trace the true principle of our actions, we shall find, that they are always necessary consequences of our volitions and desires, which are never in our power. You think yourself free, because you do what you will; but are you free to will, or not to will; to desire, or not to desire? Are not your volitions and desires necessarily excited by objects or qualities totally independent of you?”

Ifs Thinking Action Desire Quality Principles Objects Illusion Consequence Independent Mere Excited Free Will Inward Persuasion Our Actions Volition

Author:Baron d'Holbach

“It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens and one of the noblest characteristics of the late Revolution. The freemen of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise and entangled the question in precedents. They saw all the consequences in the principle, and they avoided the consequences by denying the principle. We revere this lesson too much ... to forget it”

Source: Writings

“History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.”

People Spirit Common Numbers Race Principles Teach History Greater Consequence Accustomed Similarity

Book:Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two

Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two

“The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system - and its value depends on the constitutional structure implementing and strictly delimiting the voters' power; unlimited majority rule is an instance of the principle of tyranny.”

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z