Joan Blades Quotes

While different people may approach opportunities in different ways, we need to base decisions on a fundamental set of values as we chart our course of action.

When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer.

There's more than one way to get to the goal that you want to get to, but once you compromise your own principles, then you're lost. You're really lost.

If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble.

Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.

The point never to lose sight of is to be guided by the correct thing, as you see it. It's the only way to approach such profound matters and retain your integrity.

All I can go on is my own value system.

In these confused times, the role of classical music is at the very core of the struggle to reassert cultural and ethical values that have always characterized our country and for which we have traditionally been honored and respected outside our shores.

States are supposed to have interests but no principles. I have principles but no interests.

Conservatism is not the problem. Conservatism is the founding of this country, essentially. Conservatism isn't even really an ideology. Conservatism is just what is right, proper, decent, and moral. That's all it is.

There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?

Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense.

There are gonna be a core set of values that shouldn't be up for debate. Should be our north star.

Principles are what allow you to live a life consistent with those values. Principles connect your values to your actions.

He sighed. It had come to this. He was a responsible authority, and people could use terms like "core values" at him with impunity.

You know flexibility is a good thing but it shouldn't - you shouldn't be flexible on core principles.

Always get back to your core principles.

I must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself.

I am comfortable that the principles that I articulated were never compromised.

It is this language of values which I hope to bring to my books. . . . I want to bring values to those who have not been valued, and I want to etch those values in terms of the ideal. Young people need ideals which identify them, and their lives, as central . . . guideposts which tell them what they can be, should be, and indeed are.

The only thing you can never change is your values.

The men can have a moral compass that is just unshakeable, they can have ethics that run to the core.

I don't really have a system or set of principles. It's kind of common sense mixed up with instinct.

Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots