Ashamed Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli

How easy it is for generous sentiments, high courtesy, and chivalrous courage to lose their influence beneath the chilling blight of selfishness, and to…

— James F. Cooper

Principles have a way of enduring, as do the few irreducible individuals who maintain allegiance to them.

— Christopher Hitchens

Instead of an aristocracy of wealth, of more harm and danger than benefit to society, to make an opening for the aristocracy of virtue…

— Thomas Jefferson

False principles, which correspond with the bad as well as with the just aspirations of mankind, are a normal and necessary element in the…

— Lord Acton

Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes.

— Seneca the Younger

To doubt one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. Don't defend past actions; what is right today may be wrong…

— Hyman Rickover

When people say, 'From first principles... ' to start their argument, what they mean is that they wish to assume as few things as…

— Bryan Johnson

“Two principles have stood face-to-face from the beginning of time; and they will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of…

— Abraham Lincoln

“There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances. The superior man espouses events and…

— Honoré de Balzac

“The people naturally adhere most to doctrines which demand the least self-exertion and the least use of their own reason, and which can best…

— Immanuel Kant

Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken…

— Red Skelton

A man must not only stand for the right principles, but he must also fight for them. Those who fight for principle can be…

— Ezra Taft Benson