Quotes about principles

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are usually right.

—Eugene V. Debs

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

—Agatha Christie

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We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!

—William Lloyd Garrison

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To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

—Abraham Lincoln

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The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

—W. Somerset Maugham

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I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.

—Gustave Courbet

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Those are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others.

—Groucho Marx

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Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

—Anatole France

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In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principles contain it or stand against it.

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Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

—Groucho Marx

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

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The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

—Jerzy Kosiński

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