That torture is wrong can never be the conclusion to any line of reasoning because it has to be a fundamental premise. Witnessing to the humanity of the other is the place where all moral reasoning must begin.
The fundamental driver in computer security, in all of the computer industry, is economics. That requires a lot of re-education for us security geeks.
Metaphysics is the clearing house for all fundamental philosophical problems.
So usually you have to have product distribution as more fundamental than what the actual product is.
It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of human nature that our power actually to possess is limited.
The right to choose to live or to die is the most fundamental right there is; conversely, the duty to give others that opportunity to the best of our ability is the most fundamental duty there is.
Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference we should each be treated with appropriate respect.
We do not seek to thrust the principles of our religion upon anyone. The fundamental principles of our religion forbid that.
My fundamental philosophy is that you owe it to society to transfer to them any knowledge you have that might be useful.
Poverty is the fundamental cause of most of the physical, moral and economic ills of humanity.
The fundamental task is to achieve smallness within large organisation.
"Art is the ability to turn one's gaze to the world of oblivion. " This is the way in which I understand art at fundamental level.
Fundamentals are the building blocks of fun.
The capitalist mode of production and accumulation, and therefore capitalist private property, have for their fundamental condition the annihilation of self-earned private property: in other words, the expropriation of the labourer.
Brethren, understand that the gospel is a gospel which brings a present salvation; and try to feel that it is not presumption, but simply out of the very fundamental principle of it, when you are not afraid to say, "I know that my Redeemer is yonder, and I know that He loves me.
Fundamental physics is like an art more or less. It's completely non-practical, and you can't use it for anything. But it's about the universe and how the world came into being. It's very remote from your daily life and mine, and yet it defines us as human beings.
the main necessity on both sides of a revolution is kindness, which makes possible the most surprising things. To treat one's neighbor as oneself is the fundamental maxim for revolution.
There's a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness.
Frankly, my fundamental beliefs have not changed.
Globalization really is a concrete, fundamental fact in everybody's lives, and you really see that come to life in soccer stadiums.