Sentence examples for higher principles from inspiring English sources

Americans don't like to think of our leaders as having no higher principles.

Politics is about picking winners and losers according to higher principles like justice and equality.

As a nation we must hesitate before allowing the higher principles of the Bill of Rights to become little more than lowly tools of commercial advantage.

Others have more to say about the circumstances in which the law can be transcended in the light of higher principles.

His rhetorical rejection of the 'rat race' and his call to the higher principles of our common humanity has not faded but rings louder as the years pass", Gray said.

As if on cue, the High Sparrow shows up, his gray hair unkempt, politely reminding these two glum guys of higher principles and their effects: why the king's wife must remain behind bars, why a corpse wears eyeball stones.

"But the higher principle of freedom of movement in general should not be meddled with.

It means that Republicans have no higher principle than their own political self-preservation.

The first sort of ignorance is the ignorance a higher principle has of what is lower than it.

In Sidgwick's words "…we require some higher principle to decide the issue…" That will be utilitarianism.

But the raw power of the market and self-interest must be harnessed, steered, and disciplined by higher principles--by morality--to prevent them from careening down the path to self-destruction.