Famous quotes containing the words consistency and/or principle:
“The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day’s time they will have turned it into a Hell.”
—Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832)
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