Sentence examples for principles of society from inspiring English sources

It shows you can be moral and have principles without them being the normal principles of society," its producer Nica Burns said.

He held that the underlying principles of society are individual egoism, which is encouraged by the division of labour, and the combination of efforts and the maintenance of social cohesion by means of government and the state.

Writing in the Journal du Dimanche newspaper this week, Chirac said he had seen La Rafle, and that its powerful recreation of the round-up was a reminder that one of the chief principles of society had to be "the courage to declare... that force should never prevail over law".

So I guess it was conceived as an interrogation of the first principles of society: do you want to live in a place where kids who are born with disabilities and without wealth have to wait two years for an operation because nobody will modify their door frames?

What Spinoza intends to demonstrate (in the strongest sense of that word) is the truth about God, nature and especially ourselves; and the highest principles of society, religion and the good life.

Due to their lack of self-respect, and the excessive demands the capitalist welfare-state places on their moral sensibilities and capacities for justice, the least advantaged are unable to willingly affirm the organizing principles of society on grounds of their sense of justice.

Whenever nationalism becomes the chief organising principle of society, state violence is not far behind.

Now, after a stunning political comeback that culminated with his election to the House of Representatives in 1996, Mr. Kucinich -- the boy mayor who was so bombastic he fired his police chief live on the 6 o'clock news -- is seeking the White House, on a platform of "nonviolence as an organizing principle of society".

One of the major historical influences on the region has been the counterculture movement, which among many aspects, emphasized equality as a bedrock principle of society.

Polanyi argued that making this commodity the organizing principle of society meant 'to subordinate the substance of society itself to the laws of the market'.

Gender is more than a variable to be manipulated; it is an organizing principle of society.