There is a good saying to the effect that when a new book appears one should read an old one. As as author I would not recommend too strict an adherence to this saying.
The integrity of one's own mind is of infinitely more value than adherence to any creed or system. We must choose between a dead faith belonging to the past and a living, growing ever-advancing science belonging to the future.
The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community.
To mourn deeply for the death of another loosens from myself the petty desire for, and the animal adherence to life. We have gained the end of the philosopher, and view without shrinking the coffin and the pall.
I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster.
These actions were taken with the support and financing of the United States. How can you say this is part of U. S. adherence to international law and U. N. resolutions? The result is a kind of schizophrenic picture of the United States.
No one is born with good character; it's not a hereditary trait. And it isn't determined by a single noble act. Character is established by conscientious adherence to moral values, not by lofty rhetoric or good intentions.
For any student of history, change is the law of life. Any attempt to contain it guarantees an explosion down the road; the more rigid the adherence to the status quo, the more violent the ultimate outcome will be.
Sustainable change, after all, depends not upon compliance with external mandates or blind adherence to regulation, but rather upon the pursuit of the greater good.
Let us make it clear that we will never turn our backs on our steadfast friends in Israel, whose adherence to the democratic way must be admired by all friends of freedom.
What are the maxims of Democracy? A strict observance of justice and public faith, and a steady adherence to virtue.
The German has not the slightest notion how a people must be misled if the adherence of the masses is sought.
If the student truly absorbs the concept of free inquiry in the field of music, unimpeded by blind adherence to doctrine and tradition, he will bring something of this approach not only to other fields of knowledge but to the conduct of his daily life.
We love your adherence to democratic principles.
Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality.
As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.
That the foundation of our national policy should be laid in private morality. If individuals be not influenced by moral principles, it is in vain to look for public virtue; it is, therefore, the duty of legislators to enforce, both by precept and example, the utility, as well as the necessity, of a strict adherence to the rules of distributive justice.
One of the most marked characteristics of our day is a reckless neglect of principles, and a rigid adherence to their semblance.
The Conservative does not despise government. He despises tyranny. This is precisely why the Conservative reveres the Constitution and insists on adherence to it.
Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
