Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no principle, however immaculate, that has not had its compromising manipulator. – Wyndham Lewis
Fascism is itself less ‘ideological’, in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed. – Theodor Adorno
The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. – W. Somerset Maugham