Quotes About Compromising Principles

#1. Foremost, step one could take is avoiding the cheap behaviour of compromising principles with decorated lies which assails the moral power of common sense.

Nilantha Ilangamuwa

#2. Television, introduced at the close of World War II, has become a form of electronic heroin, and it isn't even your trip. They don't even let you go on your own trip, you get a trip designed by Madison Avenue.

Terence McKenna

#3. So in sum, what are we? We are the creatures that know and know too much. That leaves us with such a burden again we have a choice, to laugh or cry. No other animal does either. We do, depending on the season and the need.

Ray Bradbury

#4. I have no problem with cheating. Whatever you can get away with.

Joe Torre

#5. Beauties such as you are worth far more than a bitch on her knees. Shall we start with a name, precious one?

Sai Marie Johnson

#6. We need to exert ourselves that much more, and break out of the vicious cycle of dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful: those in command of immense market power and those who dare to fashion the world in their own image.

Nelson Mandela

#7. If she tried to leave without him he would burn her house down, plain and simple.

R.L. Mathewson

#8. There is something to that old saying that hate injures the hater, not the hated.

Peace Pilgrim

#9. Those lyrics tell the story Dahlia, our story. I wrote that song five years ago and even now when I sing it, your face is the face I see. You're unforgettable Dahlia. You're perfect, really.

Kim Karr

#10. Events and circumstances sometimes conspire against us; if we insist on inflexibility for the purpose of maintaining our beliefs, we end up compromising ourselves nevertheless. We salvage one set of principles only to forsake another.

Terry Brooks

#11. It is better to be seen as cruel than foolish.

George R R Martin

#12. All the places my mind took me were places I did not want to go.

Linwood Barclay

#13. But sometimes a kiss is not a kiss is not a kiss. Sometimes it's a poetry.

Julie Buxbaum