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Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed. – Mark Twain	added by anonymous 14 years ago
To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles. – Anonymous	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. ... What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it. – Henry Kissinger	added by anonymous 14 years ago
He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world. – Benjamin Franklin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. – Ambrose Bierce	added by anonymous 14 years ago
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. – Aesop	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Liberty, equality - bad principles The only true principle for humanity is justice and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness. – Henri Frdric Amiel	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. – Thomas Paine	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. – Alfred Adler	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach. – Athenus	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society. – Edward C. Banfield	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Ours is the age of substitutes instead of language, we have jargon instead of principles, slogans and instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas. – Eric Bentley	added by anonymous 14 years ago
One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat. – James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles. – James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody. – Agatha Christie	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Glory built on selfish principles is shame and guilt. – William Cowper	added by anonymous 14 years ago
All universal moral principles are idle fantasies. – Marquis de Sade	added by anonymous 14 years ago
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right. – Eugene V. Debs	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic. – Hazel Henderson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Many businessmen fail to understand Python principles--the ultimate absurdity was an offer from America to buy the 'format' of the Python shows, that is, Monty Python without the Pythons--corporate methods do not have the conceptual framework to deal with an anarchist collective, run by intelligent and arrogant comedians who have proved that their method works. – Robert Hewison	added by anonymous 14 years ago
History is the discovering of the constant and universal principles of human nature. – David Hume	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions. – Martin Luther	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. – George Jean Nathan	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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