#principles

When you are in love' hypocrisy won over principle. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#principles #love

I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more I will respect myself. I will keep the law given by God; sanctioned by man. I will hold the principles received by me when I was sane, not mad -- as I am now. Laws and principles are not for times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour; stringent are they; inviolate they shall be. If at my individual convenience I might break them, what would be their worth? They have a worth -- so I have always believed; and if I cannot believe it now, it is because I am insane -- quite insane, with my veins running fire, and my heart beating faster than I can count its throbs. Preconceived opinions, foregone determinations are all I have at this hour to stand; there I plant my foot. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#morality #principles #steadfastness #respect

One of them is that a bastard is always a bastard and if I can hurt a bastard by digging up shit about him, then he deserves it. ↗

— Stieg Larsson

#dragons

The money in the schools overpowers the principles of the purpose. ↗

— Miroslav Vitous

#principles #purpose #schools

A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#deduction #generated #judgement #laws #may

In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#dear #holds #important #justice #lose

The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition. ↗

— John Acton

#absolute power #authority #based #between #choices

It there any nation that acknowledges its errors and its sins and its crimes and the things it has done that are not consistent with its principles more than the United States? No, there is not. ↗

— Bill Bennett

#consistent #crimes #done #errors #more

Important principles may and must be inflexible. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#life

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

— Groucho Marx

#like #others #principles #them #those