Quotes of Principle - somelinesforyou

“ If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody. ”

- Agatha Christie

“ Laws are not masters, but servants, and he rules them, who obeys them. ”

- Ward Becker

“ You may be flexible on strategy, but must remain consistent on principle! ”

- Brubaker Movie

“ I find that principles have no real force except when one is well fed. ”

- Mark Twain

“ To abandon oneself to principles is really to die — and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love. ”

- Albert Camus

“ A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. ”

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

“ I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Its easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor. ”

- Ray Kroc

“ Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles. ”

- Red Skelton

“ Important principles may and must be inflexible. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool. ”

- Richard Feynman

“ It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. ”

- Alfred Adler

“ The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles. ”

- Ayn Rand

“ Here's the rule for bargains: "Do other men, for they would do you." That's the true business precept. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency. ”

- Peter Singer

“ Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them. ”

- Alan Watts

“ Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers. ”

- William Feather

“ Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned. ”

- Joseph Wood Krutch

“ If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers. ”

- Edward F. Halifax

“ I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow. ”

- Kiichi Miyazawa

“ Laws are only felt when the individual comes in conflict with them. ”

- Suzanne La Follette

“ We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles. ”

- Mark Twain

“ The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter. ”

- James Clerk Maxwell

“ The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative. ”

- Benito Mussolini

“ A precedent embalms a principle. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ So the compromise itself is within ethics rather than between competing ethics, and I think that's true in geo-political concerns. ”

- Peter Singer

“ Arms and laws do not flourish together. ”

- Gaius Julius Caesar

“ Any aggression against our foreign guests represents a challenge to the rule of law and we will not permit it. ”

- Mahmoud Abbas

“ Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed. ”

- Mark Twain
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