Unprincipled Quotes

This man [Aaron Burr] has no principles, public or private. As a politician, his sole spring of action is an inordinate ambition.

The inside operation of Congress - the deals, the compromises, the selling out, the co-opting, the unprincipled manipulating, the self-serving career-building - is a story of such monumental decadence that I believe if people find out about it they will demand an end to it.

A cold-blooded, calculation, unprincipled, usurper, without a virtue, no statesman, knowing nothing of commerce, political economy, or civil government, and supplying ignorance by bold presumption.

Here is a company that is a traitor!!

My father was a good man, but he was a con man. He was a wanderer, nomadic.

I love Robin Wright's character in 'House of Cards' because she's a bona fide villain. She's a not-nice person in a believable way; you can see her working in the world.

Although his personality is generally quite agreeable, Mr Murdoch has no loyalty to anyone or anything except his company.

These Wall Street types, they're not exactly the kind of people you want your children turning into. They're really not very smart. They're certainly not thoughtful or kind. They're often poorly-educated, mostly ignorant and always self-interested and greedy.

President Eisenhower is two faced and has no guts.

Betrayal is common for men with no conscience.

[Characterizing William Randolph Hearst:] ... a moral pervert, a political degenerate.

The fellow has absolutely no principles."Money and gall" is all he has.

However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.

Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone … Whether Prime Minister, or leaders of opposition, whether preaching or praying, speechifying or scribbling—never a gentlemen!

I have no point in my system or morals where I say, 'This is too far.'

The most reckless and treacherous of all theorists is he who professes to let facts and figures speak for themselves.

Look, we want freedom and we want liberty in this country. But we've also got to have the guts to stand up and run a tight ship in America. Morality is now a word that many people consider very square and outdated. But if we don't stand up for it, we deserve what we will get in the end - unprincipled anarchy.

[Referring to George W. Bush:] He lacks the courage of his convictions because he lacks convictions.

That's how most of us would feel. But the sport has a few deviants without consciences.

I was a no-good bastard.

We have come to see him as not vital but violent, not clever but devious, not shrewd but cynical.

… the mere money-making American, insensible to every duty, regardless of every principle, bent only on amassing a fortune.

Those people are unabashedly ruthless as far as money is concerned.

If we can accept this [immoral, unethical, irrational, inconsistent, and non-presidential] behavor from a politican [President Donald Trump], then perhaps we should not be politicians.

The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything