While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!
To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
I cannot surrender my principles, though the whole world besides should vote them down - I can make no compromise between truth and error, even though my life be the alternative.
I have principles and I am not going to be forced to compromise them.
My father taught me that you have to stand by your principles.
A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
Principles are the most important thing to me. One of the things I think my dad taught me was there are people who accept the world they live in and there are people who change the world they live in. I don't accept my circumstances.
We can live our own lives in a way that does not bring reproach on the principles we claim to support.