Sentence examples for highest principle and from inspiring English sources

In the countryside survival is the highest principle and in its name, despite feeling a strong tie to the land, a man was capable of thoughtless destruction of the environment, of degrading it step by step, of poaching, cutting down woods and groves.

As the great humanitarian, theologian and philosopher Albert Schweitzer has enunciated in his view of Reverence for Life, respect for the life of others becomes the highest principle and the defining purpose of humanity.

It would inject meanspiritedness and exclusion into the document embodying our highest principles and aspirations.

You will now be called upon to do your parts to help build and maintain our country's best values and highest principles and historic traditions.

And when they sought to improve America, they did so by recalling Americans to their highest principles, and by calling them forward to a grand destiny.

But I believe, too, that we hope our leaders are capable of governing in a manner reflective of our highest principles and aspirations.

While the myriad issues facing the U.S. have changed and changed again since Kennedy's time, the importance of being guided by the highest principles and ideals has not.

So its diplomacy comes in two distinct styles: high principle and pragmatism.

Beginning the book as a hapless bystander in his own story, he ends it as a compound of high principle and higher ambition.

There are pomp, pragmatism, high principle and brazen manipulation, and it is sometimes hard to tell which is which.

It contained an appeal to a higher power or higher principle and a flickering plea asking these unseen forces to make tomorrow "different".