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For liberals, generally speaking, honoring procedures - means - is the core of what being 'principled' means. For conservatives, fighting for the right outcome - ends - even at the expense of procedural nicety, is what being 'principled' means.

— Rick Perlstein

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.

— Stephen Covey

I will always speak out when someone says that a principle or a rule or a tradition trumps people.

— Gene Robinson

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.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

— Abraham Lincoln

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.

— Red Skelton

Its easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.

— Ray Kroc

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.

— Ken Buck

To me, it's a heroic attribute to be so committed to a principle that you apply it, not when it's easy, not when it supports your position, not when it protects people you like, but when it defends and protects people that you hate.

— Glenn Greenwald

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

— Henry Kissinger

✗Opposing Perspectives

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

— W. Somerset Maugham