principles

There is indeed something deeply wrong with a person who lacks principles, who has no moral core. There are, likewise, certainly values that brook no compromise, and I would count among them integrity, fairness, and the avoidance of cruelty. But I have never accepted the argument that principle is compromised by judging each situation on its own merits, with due appreciation of the idiosyncrasy of human motivation and fallibility.

It is always easier to find your sense of value by demeaning another__ value. It is easier to define yourself as __ot that,_ rather than do an actual accounting of your own qualities and put them on the scale.

Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked.Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away.

A goal lacking a sense of ethics is a goal that lacks any sense.

Thomas More: Will, I'd trust you with my life. But not your principles. You see, we speak of being anchored to our principles. But if the weather turns nasty you up with an anchor and let it down where there's less wind, and the fishing's better. And "Look," we say, "look, I'm anchored! To my principles!

If we dare examine our decisions, we will see our values woven in and through every single one of them. Therefore, it would do us well to take an occasional peek to insure that our values remain at their peak.

The secret of real prosperity in the church is to teach God__ people principles of economic empowerment

The church must be involved in all the seven spheres of life extending the virtues and principles of the kingdom of God

It is the bungled crime that brings remorse.

To live a kingdom live on earth is to live by principles

Ideas do have consequences in history, yet not because those ideas are inherently truthful or obviously correct but rather because of the way they are embedded in very powerful institutions, networks, interests, and symbols.

It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than to apply them.

I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius.

Everyone knows the principles of Beautiful life but,only few of them have opportunities to follow them.

Who really want to succeed follow the principles of his mentor with determination and action.

I have determined, the Almighty God being my help and my shield, yet to suffer, if frail life might continue so long, even until the moss shall grow on my eyebrows, rather than to violate my faith and my principles.

About my interests: I don__ know if I have any, unless the morbid desire to own a sixteen-millimeter camera and make experimental movies can be so classified. Otherwise, I love to eat and drink _ it__ my melancholy conviction that I__e scarcely ever had enough to eat (this is because it__ impossible to eat enough if you__e worried about the next meal) _ and I love to argue with people who do not disagree with me too profoundly, and I love to laugh. I do not like bohemia, or bohemians, I do not like people whose principal aim is pleasure, and I do not like people who are earnest about anything. I don__ like people who like me because I__ a Negro; neither do I like people who find in the same accident grounds for contempt. I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. I think all theories are suspect, that the finest principles may have to be modified, or may even be pulverized by the demands of life, and that one must find, therefore, one__ own moral center and move through the world hoping that this center will guide one aright. I consider that I have many responsibilities, but none greater than this: to last, as Hemingway says, and get my work done.

Only wise men can differentiate between what is a matter of pride and what is a principle of dignity.