People must have righteous principles in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions. – Martin Luther Category: Principles
Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages. – Henry Ward Beecher Category: Principles
Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help. – G. W. F. Hegel Category: Principles
Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no principle, however immaculate, that has not had its compromising manipulator. – Percy Wynham Lewis Category: Principles
Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions. – Jacques Barzun Category: Music
The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more. – Georges Bernanos Category: Rights
No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday. – Mae West Category: Jewelry
Too many historical writers are the votaries of cults, which, by definition are dedicated to whitewashing warts and hanging halos. – Thomas A. Bailey Category: History
