Adherence Quotations

It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that upright integrity, that strict adherence to truth and principle, that distain of trick and littleness, which a man should display in every transaction of his life.

As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.

Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality.

It is time that Christians were judged more by their likeness to Christ than their notions of Christ. Were this sentiment generally admitted we should not see such tenacious adherence to what men deem the opinions and doctrines of Christ while at the same time in every day practise is exhibited anything but a likeness to Christ.

Intellectual adherence is never owed to anything whatsoever, for it is never in any degree a voluntary thing. Attention alone is voluntary. It alone forms the subject of an obligation.

Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.

The German has not the slightest notion how a people must be misled if the adherence of the masses is sought.

Continued adherence to a policy of compulsory education is utterly incompatible with efforts to establish lasting peace.

What are the maxims of Democracy? A strict observance of justice and public faith, and a steady adherence to virtue.

Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.