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"All universal moral principles are idle fancies."
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"Principle' [Established Truth] means everywhere applicable; when there is nothing else, it is called Principle."

"That which never attains a state of non-principle [non-truth] is known as the principle."

"The first principle of time is that it must be converted into product."

"This 'Akram science' does not scorn worldly interaction in the slightest. While living absolutely within it's reality, It does not scorn the worldly interaction. Not scorning worldly interaction is itself a thing of principle."

"Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite."

"Mirabelle always ate her lunch on Brighton beach if the weather was in any way passable, but out of sheer principle she never paid tuppence for a chair. We did not win the war to have to pay to sit down, she frequently found herself thinking."

"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others."

"I don't consult polls to tell me what my principles are or what our policies should be."

"It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled."

"In my speeches, I always condemned communism, national-socialism and fascism."
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"The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only."

"Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization."

"She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring."

"'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death."

"No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful."

"Woman's destiny is to be wanton, like the bitch, the she-wolf; she must belong to all who claim her."

"There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience."
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