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Quotes about principles
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Success is the ability to rise above principle. (Blumenthal Heston)
In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principal. (Blumenthal Heston)
Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages. (Blumenthal Heston)
To abandon oneself to principles is really to die -- and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love. (Blumenthal Heston)
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The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions. (Blumenthal Heston)
The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition. (Blumenthal Heston)
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. (Blumenthal Heston)
Values provide perspective in the best of times and worst. (Blumenthal Heston)
We may be personally defeated, but our principles never. (Blumenthal Heston)
The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness. (Blumenthal Heston)
Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help. (Blumenthal Heston)
In matters of principals, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current. (Blumenthal Heston)
Obey the principles without being bound by them. (Blumenthal Heston)
Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no principle, however immaculate, that has not had its compromising manipulator. (Blumenthal Heston)
People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions. (Blumenthal Heston)
Principle, particularly moral principal, can never be a weathervane, spinning around this way and that with the shifting winds of expediency. Moral principle is a compass forever fixed and forever true. And that is as important in business as it is in the classroom. (Blumenthal Heston)
The proclamation and repetition of first principles is a constant feature of life in our democracy. Active adherence to these principles, however, has always been considered un-American. We recipients of the boon of liberty have always been ready, when faced with discomfort, to discard any and all first principles of liberty, and, further, to indict those who do not freely join with us in happily arrogating those principles. (Blumenthal Heston)
Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle. (Blumenthal Heston)
You may be flexible on strategy, but must remain consistent on principle! (Blumenthal Heston)
Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses; whence it follows that religious principles bear upon nothing whatever and are not in the slightest innate. Ignorance and fear, you will repeat to them, ignorance and fear -- those are the twin bases of every religion. (Blumenthal Heston)
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. (Blumenthal Heston)
I find that principles have no real force except when one is well fed. (Blumenthal Heston)
Prosperity is the best protector of principle. (Blumenthal Heston)
Principal is a passion for truth! (Blumenthal Heston)
Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense advocating them with words. Temperamentally we are ready to die for certain principles (or, in the case of overripe adults, send youngsters to die), but we show little inclination to advertise the reasons for dying. (Blumenthal Heston)
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