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If you can find a way that your principles are actually the strategically smartest thing to do, you've kind of figured it out.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

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.

I have principles and I am not going to be forced to compromise them.

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.

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.

The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.