Sentence examples for vile principle from inspiring English sources
No, for them it's the principle of the thing, and it's a vile principle.
Lincoln confronted the breakup of the United States over the question of slavery, a vile institution that denied the very principles upon which the country was founded.
From the murk of the battlefield, the Hague tribunal hints tantalisingly at rare moral clarity, the principle that some crimes are so vile there can be no hiding place for the culprits.
Calling Yiannopoulos "vile" and "a reprehensible person," Strangio wrote, "I don't believe in protecting principle for the sake of principle in all cases.
Dr. Steel says it's based on sound principles of behavioral psychology: "We are willing to pursue any vile task as long as it allows us to avoid something worse".
It doesn't matter how well-meaning the government is that wants to break the secrecy, nor how vile the criminal may be who is protected, the system stands or falls as a whole and the principle is more important than the facts of any one crime.
The one paper I wouldn't buy out of principle is the Mail, because I know people who've been turned over by it, and it's sexist, vile, hateful and racist, the worst kind of journalism.
As he wrote, reprobating Victorian hypocrisy and religiosity and its vile drug traffic, it was the supposedly uncivilised peoples who were defending decent standards: "While the semi-barbarian stood on the principle of morality, the civilised opposed to him the principle of self".
