Lysander Spooner

Majorities, as such, afford no guarantees for justice. They are men of the same nature as minorities. They have the same passions for fame, power, and money, as minorities; and are liable and likely to be equally - perhaps more than equally, because more boldly - rapacious, tyrannical and unprincipled, if intrusted with power.

American Philosopher

Cliff Robertson

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 Morality is now a word that many people consider very square and outdated.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.

American Actor

Denis Kearney

They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race.

American Politician

George Combe

And if these be unprincipled agents who scruple at nothing, he will be a bold man who will deny that there are always to be found men at the bar who lend their services most cordially to back and support these agents in their most desperate cases.

American Educator

Ben Domenech

If you're a conservative who thinks the culture wars are over (they're never really over, of course), then you are a lot more open to the idea of a unprincipled blowhard who promises he's got your back on political correctness.

American Writer

Alex Pareene

John Boehner was and is an unprincipled ward-heeler who simply couldn't weather the transition of the Republican Party from a corporatist party with a sizable conservative base to a purely conservative party.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.

Al Capp

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

American Cartoonist

Julia Ward Howe

I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind.

American Activist

Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

Unprincipled governments are inevitably unstable, unsuccessful and short-lived.

British Politician

The word 'unprincipled' carries a negative judgement and should be used carefully.

Negative Tone

'Unprincipled' is a strong word implying a lack of integrity, so use it for serious ethical breaches.

Strong Accusation

Use 'unprincipled' to suggest someone has knowingly abandoned moral standards.

Subtle Nuance

'Unprincipled' implies actions disregard widely accepted moral values.

Moral Implication

Use 'unprincipled' when someone’s actions lack any moral standards, not just specific ones.

Absence of Standards

Remember 'unprincipled' can depend on one's perspective; what's immoral to some may not be to others.

Perspective Sensitive

 the satirist Lucian described the Cynics of his own time as unprincipled, materialistic, self-promoting hypocrites, who only preached what Diogenes had once actually practiced. Reading Lucian’s texts centuries later,