26 Movie Quotes about Principles (Sound Clips) - page 2

Last updated on: June 28, 2025

Memorable quotes about principles, selected from famous or less known movies and other sources by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

11 All right, men. I respect your right to petition. But I do question and I will fight any petition that denies any American the right to earn his living in the game that is supposed to represent the democratic principles of sportsmanship and fair play!

Minor Watson as Branch Rickey in The Jackie Robinson Story

12 I like persons better than principles and persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

13 It's the principle of the whole thing. It's principalities in this.

Quote from Friday (1995)

14 He's going to jump off a building. Not because he's out of a job. That's not news. He's jumping out of principle.

Quote from Meet John Doe (1941)

15 It's a path made of principle that leads to character. Let him continue on his journey.

Quote from Scent of a Woman (1992)

16 Gentleman? Well, that's against my principles, but it's a deal.

Quote from Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie

17 Whatever your Earth term may be, the principle is ancient and very simple.

Quote from The Atomic Submarine

18 I created somebody who's giving up his life for a principle.

Quote from Meet John Doe (1941)

19 It's not the idea. It's the principle of the thing.

Quote from The Milky Way (1936)

20 You have been confined here for one month already, but you still haven't grasped this basic principle.

Quote from Shaolin vs. Lama (1983)