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1 " It is an axiom of modern social psychology that the stories that tend to get repeated are the ones that somehow have the potential to strengthen the communities in which they are told, or to enhance the relationship between the teller and the hearer. This principle seems to be reflected in the stories that were handed down from the community around Jesus. Again and again, early Christian stories suggest that virtue is not enough. The lives of families and communities can only really flourish where virtue takes second place to love. "
― Kate Cooper , Band of Angels: The Forgotten World of Early Christian Women
2 " It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan. "
― Thomas Jefferson , Letters of Thomas Jefferson
3 " It must be noted that the non-aggression alone can never be the starting point in justifying moral behavior or serving as a fundamental principle of ethics. There must be a justification of the non-aggression principle before such a case can be made. The very implication of the term “principle” implies that non-aggression serves as the foundation for a system of ethics, which it cannot be. It is certainly not an axiom since it is not a self-evident truth. "
― Daniel Alexander Brackins , Private Property, Law, and the State
4 " In the days following the crash, an axiom as old as the Republic came into play once more. In good times Wall Street wanted Washington to leave it alone. In bad times it wanted Washington to act. "
― Haynes Johnson , Sleepwalking Through History: America in the Reagan Years
5 " It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. "
― Arthur Conan Doyle , The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #4)
