Principles quotes

“When we were kids, belonging felt good. But having respect, that feels even better.”
Steve Wilcox - Young JD

“Principles are like prayers; noble, of course, but awkward at a party.”
Maggie Smith - Violet Crawley

“I don’t believe in the old saying that the end justifies the means, and no money that I can earn as an actor can accomplish so much good that I would feel justified in violating my ideals to earn it…”
Eugene Hugh Beaumont

“Sometimes my work as an actor presents a conflict with my ideals as a clergyman.”
Eugene Hugh Beaumont

“I've never worried about the grand concepts.”
Peter Falk

“The organizing principle of any society, Mr. Garrison, is for war. The authority of the state over its people resides in its war powers.”
Donald Sutherland - X

“- Jen Yu: It must exciting to be a fighter, to be totally free.
- Yu Shu Lien: Fighters have rules, too. Friendship, trust, integrity. Always keep your promise. Without rules we wouldn't survive long.”
Zhang Ziyi - Jen Yu
Michelle Yeoh - Yu Shu Lien

“Number one, no man ought to stay poor so another man can get rich. Number two, no man ought to tell another man what you got to live for or what he's got to die for. Number three, what you put in the ground is yours to tend and harvest and there ain't no man ought to be able to take that away from you. Number four, every man is a man. If you...” (continue)(continue reading)

Matthew McConaughey - Newton Knight

- Barney Caine: You trade lives and human dignity for profit.
- Adam Steiffel: "Money, not morality, is the principal commerce of civilized nations". Thomas Jefferson, 200 years ago. That is the philosophy that built this nation.
George C. Scott - Barney Caine
Marlon Brando - Adam Steiffel

“Do not kill. Do not rape. Do not steal. These are principles which every man of every faith can embrace.”
Norman Reedus - Murphy MacManus

“- Melissa: Why are you doing this?
- Martin 'Rubber Duck' Penwald: Don’t know about the rest of them, but I’m running for my life myself.
- Melissa: But they're all following you.
- Martin 'Rubber Duck' Penwald: No, they ain't. I'm just in front of them.”

Ali MacGraw - Melissa
Kris Kristofferson - Martin 'Rubber Duck' Penwald

“- Danton: I refused to shake hands. I pronounced my own death sentence.
- Camille Desmoulins: You don't mean that.
- Danton: Yes, I do.
- Camille Desmoulins: Why did you refuse?
- Danton: His hands are too bloody.”

Gérard Depardieu - Danton
Patrice Chéreau - Camille Desmoulins

“It is not about money, it is about principle.”

Ken Jeong - Mr. Chow

“It's a fine line between standing behind a principle and hiding behind one. You can tolerate a little compromise, if you're actually managing to get something accomplished.”
Bill Pullman - President Thomas J. Whitmore

“- Oscar: I don't understand you. Why do you have to be so goddamned uncompromising?
- Evangeline 'Eva' Dandrige: It's called principle. Maybe the world is in short supply, but I am not.”
Matt Winston - Oscar
Gabrielle Union - Evangeline 'Eva' Dandrige

“- Charlie Kaufman: There are no rules, Donald. And anyone who says there are is just, you know...
- Donald Kaufman: Not rules, principles. McKee writes that a rule says you must do it this way. A principle says, this works and has through all remembered time.”
Nicolas Cage - Charlie Kaufman
Nicolas Cage - Donald Kaufman

“Principles only mean something when you stick to them when it's inconvenient.”
Joan Allen - Laine Hanson

“- Jean Rasczak: Rico. What is the moral difference, if any, between a civilian and a citizen?
- Johnny Rico: A citizen accepts personal responsibility for the safety and the body politic defending it with his life. A civilian does not.
- Jean Rasczak: The exact words of the textbook. But do you understand it? Do you believe it?
- Johnny Rico: I...” (continue)(continue reading)
Michael Ironside - Jean Rasczak
Casper Van Dien - Johnny Rico

“- Stella Wynkowski: Look, Mr. Dobbs...
- Harry Dobbs: Harry.
- Stella Wynkowski: Harry. This is not... ethical.
- Harry Dobbs: If we were discussing ethics, it'd be pretty silenthere.”
Elizabeth Perkins - Stella Wynkowski
Tom Berenger - Harry Dobbs

“What do you do when your foundation falls apart? I don't know. They don't teach you that in school.”
Matthew Lillard - Stevo

“Never put passion before principle. Even if win, you lose.”
Pat Morita - Miyagi

“They no longer see men around them but only speculators, villains and traitors. In the name of revolutionary principles, they have forgotten the Revolution! They've established a new dictatorship worse than the old. Fearing the return of tyrants, they've become tyrants themselves!”

Gérard Depardieu - Danton

“Comes a time when you have to abandon principles and do what's right.”

Alan Autry - Bowden

“When gentlemen start talking about principles, we poor people lose what we don't even have!”
Jenny Gago - La Garduna

“- Japanese Waiter: Please, take off your shoes.
- Donnie Brasco: Are you kiddin’ me? Take off your pants, what the fuck is that?”
Keenan Shimizu - Japanese Maitre D'
Johnny Depp - Donnie Brasco