Unprincipled Quotes

#1. A community narrows down and grows dreadful ignorant when it is shut up to its own affairs, and gets no knowledge of the outside world except from a cheap, unprincipled paper.

Sarah Orne Jewett

#2. He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled, is not credited even when he speaks the truth.

Periander

#3. Lepida, has anyone ever told you that you're a cruel spiteful selfish slut? ... You're vicious. You're unprincipled. You mistreat your slaves and abuse your daughter. And furthermore you're the worst, most neglectful, most criminal wife in Rome. I think we can go now.

Kate Quinn

#4. Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

#5. The truth was, the more he got portrayed as an unprincipled, ruthless prick, the more clients flocked to him. Because when it came to divorce, people wanted a ruthless prick. They lined up for one.

Michael Crichton

#6. The Constitution has been eviscerated while Democrats have stood by with nary a whimper. It is a gutless, unprincipled party, bought and paid for by the same interests that buy and pay for the Republican Party.

Rocky Anderson

#7. If there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it.

Henry David Thoreau

#8. And if these be unprincipled agents who scruple at nothing, he will be a bold man who will deny that there are always to be found men at the bar who lend their services most cordially to back and support these agents in their most desperate cases.

George Combe

#9. John Boehner was and is an unprincipled ward-heeler who simply couldn't weather the transition of the Republican Party from a corporatist party with a sizable conservative base to a purely conservative party.

Alex Pareene

#10. Word of the day- kakistocracy. From the Greek meaning government by the worst persons, least qualified or most unprincipled.

Peggy Noonan

#11. They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race.

Denis Kearney

#12. the majority of those in government were unprincipled, greedy, bigots and he wanted no part of that. If you weren't on the side of corruption taking place and the back room deals, you were not in the circle of power. Maybe one day after the US cleaned its house,

Toni Mariani

#13. I believe that all politicians are unprincipled crooks and I still believe that they are better than the alternative.

Neil Gaiman

#14. Rewards corrupt the unprincipled.

Iimani David

#15. Robert Zubrin's masterful study ... makes for riveting reading. a cautionary tale of what happens when powerful, unprincipled elites are not only alienated from the mass of their fellow men, but come to see them as a barrier to imagined social, evolutionary, or environmental progress.

Steven W. Mosher

#16. A cold-blooded, calculation, unprincipled, usurper, without a virtue, no statesman, knowing nothing of commerce, political economy, or civil government, and supplying ignorance by bold presumption.

Thomas Jefferson

#17. The inside operation of Congress - the deals, the compromises, the selling out, the co-opting, the unprincipled manipulating, the self-serving career-building - is a story of such monumental decadence that I believe if people find out about it they will demand an end to it.

Bella Abzug

#18. Gods and politics are the tools with which the godless and unprincipled manipulate the gullible.

Janet E. Morris

#19. The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#20. The principled man is merely one whose ancestors were ruthlessly unprincipled, affording him the option of acting upon fine sentiments.

Lynn Cullen

#21. Scott calls Bois-Guilbert "an unprincipled voluptuary," which is hard to improve on.

Richard Armour

#22. And am I answerable that thoughtless and unprincipled men exist whose shades of contenance may resemble mine?

James Fenimore Cooper

#23. If you permit unprincipled and ambitious men to monopolize the soil, they will become masters of the country in the certain order of cause and effect ...

Howard Zinn

#24. I am unable to accept the idea that I should be an obedient subject of a gang of corrupt, unprincipled thugs who pontificate about freedom while enslaving the population.

John Pugsley

#25. I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind.

Julia Ward Howe

#26. I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

#27. Consider what an amoral, unprincipled cynicI am-think of all the improvements you could make to my character.

Judith McNaught

#28. My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.

Ada Yonath

#29. With frantic Dean I was rushing through the world without a chance to see it.

Jack Kerouac

#30. We then spend our lives not seeing what we saw. The picture is there: what we know when we're small; when we are small, we know everything in a childlike way.

Helene Cixous

#31. I am reminded by my journey how exceedingly new this country still is. You have only to travel for a few days into the interior and back parts even of many of the old States, to come to that very America which the Northmen, and Cabot, and Gosnold, and Smith, and Raleigh visited.

Henry David Thoreau

#32. The threads of these thoughts trailed after her throughout the rest of the day, like loose ends on a fabric, needing to either be tied into a knot or snipped away.

Marilyn Brant

#33. No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being ...

Benjamin Constant

#34. But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.

Umberto Eco

#35. 1TH5.22 Abstain from all appearance of evil.

Anonymous

#36. That which compels us to create a substitute for ourselves is not the external lack of objects, but our incapacity to lovingly include a thing outside of ourselves

C. G. Jung

#37. If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.

Salma Hayek

#38. We've gone through the names - Negro, African American, African, Black. For me that's an indication of a people still trying to find their identity. Who determines what is black?

Spike Lee

#39. We communicate all the time, even when we don't realize it. Be aware of body language

Pat Summitt

#40. Dodgy bastard," one of the twins spat. A trickle of blood from his temple made it hard to tell which one. "Shite for brains," the other replied, reversing their positions and landing a punch to the gut. "We're twins. If I'm a bastard, you're one too.

Tessa Dare

#41. I winced. Thanks to Colin and Becky, my birthday song sounded a lot like a hyena getting fed through a wood chipper. I was grateful when it finally ended.

Steven Whibley

#42. In a knowledge-driven economy, talk is real work.

Thomas H. Davenport