Noun
Any opinion, principle, dogma, belief, or doctrine, which a person holds or maintains as true; as, the tenets of Plato or of Cicero.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity. Steve Biko
Even if we accept, as the basic tenet of true democracy, that one moron is equal to one genius, is it necessary to go a further step and hold that two morons are better than one genius? Leó Szilárd
The equality of rights of all citizens is the basic tenet of modern democratic societies. Jacques Maritain
Another tenet of randori is to apply just the right amount of force - never too much, never too little. Jigoro Kano
Hinduism's basic tenet is that many roads exist by which men have pursued and still pursue their quest for the truth and that none has universal validity. Kenneth Scott Latourette
The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism. Francis Parker Yockey