What is this quote means “A leader is a man who can adapt principles to circumstances”?
I believe this is a statement that one’s principles must be adapted to the best interest of the group being led. From my dissertation: John Stewart Mill’s description of an ethical decision maker is one using his senses and mental abilities to first collect the information necessary, then to make the decision, and further to stay the course once the decision is made (Kleinig, 1990). Spader (1994) paraphrased Plato: “All major legal issues are simultaneously ethical issues” (p. 100), and “justice” is “the act of giving each person his ‘due'” (p. 83). … Ethics, or more specifically ethical attitude, was used in this research as an analogue of crime, against which self-control was compared. Such use has been derived from Gottfredson and Hirschi’s (1990) work, though not specifically mentioned by them. Ethics is the aspect of philosophy concerned with the moral decision as to what is right or wrong (Souryal & Potts, 1993). Ethics is commonly considered to be a subset of both morality and p
