re: #168 b_sharp

Standing on your principles just for the sake of saying you stood on your principles is idiotic.

“I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.”
Oscar Wilde

“Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.”
Groucho Marx

“We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.”
Mark Twain

and last but not least:

“Important principles may and must be inflexible.”
Abraham Lincoln