Amity Shlaes Quotes

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

Everybody, even me, sometimes had to compromise on something, doing things we know to be wrong, and this happens doing whatever job in the world. But a singer must have the courage of saying no.

There are things you stand up for because it's right.

It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.

Stand with anybody that stands right. Stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

For me, I will defend what's right - not who I am speaking with at the time or who I think will back me.

What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right.

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.

Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

Stand up for what you know is right.

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

I'm always inspired by people who choose to do what is right, not what is easy.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it - as if the cause depends on you, because it does.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

Right is right, even if no one else does it.

Usually people are ashamed when they do something wrong. People love to live in the darkness... I live in the light. I didn't do anything wrong by saving human life.

Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it.

To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.

Truth is the most bitter to accept, swallow and digest it. The moment you speak truth, you lose your popularity. But I don't care.