Robin Sloan Quotes

The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.

I think a man becomes less than a man when he begins to compromise on what he believes is right.

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

If you can maintain your standards and your integrity and you fail, it's OK. It's when you sell out and you fail that you feel pretty sick inside.

Don't compromise your principles.

My moral standing is lying down.

You may sell your work, but not your soul.

The ethics of sex is a thorny problem. Each of us is forced to grope for a solution he can live with - in the face of preposterous, unworkable, and evil code of so-called 'Morals.' Most of us know the code is wrong, almost everybody breaks it. But we pay Danegeld by feeling guilty and giving lip service. Willy-nilly, the code rides us, dead and stinking, an albatross around the neck.

Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good, and any action taken for one's own benefit is evil. Thus the beneficiary of an action is the only criterion of moral value - and so long as that beneficiary is anybody other than oneself, anything goes.

If you choose the lesser of two evils, you are still choosing evil.

Challenges are gifts, opportunities to learn.

You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition

In order to do good, you may have to engage in evil

So far as he is able, a prince should stick to the path of good but, if the necessity arises, he should know how to follow evil.

Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.

it is better in the long run to be cheated than to cheat. I have learned that there is no middle way.

Compromise is necessary so long as you never give up who you are. That isn't compromise; that's spiritual death. You have to remain true to yourself.

How long had he been doing what was necessary instead of what was right? In a fair world they would be one and the same.

What I want you to understand, is the full evil of those who claim to have become convinced that this earth, by its nature, is a realm of malevolence where the good has no chance to win. Let them check their premises. Let them check their standards of value. Let them check - before they grant themselves the unspeakable license of evil-as-necessity - whether they know what is the good and what are the conditions it requires.

Failure is good as long as it does not become a habit.

Be flexible, but stick to your principles.

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

Marriage or non-marriage, good or evil, learning or ignorance, any of these is justified, if it leads to the goal.

Never compromise and sell yourself short.