David Lloyd Quotes

The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics.

The devil is compromise.

You can’t set aside … values in the name of political expediency.

Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.

Compromise today is too often applauded simply for itself. The cost of compromise to principles and real lives doesn't seem to matter.

My school of thought is, anything goes, but I can't do that anymore.

Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.

More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency.

Ideals are the world's masters.

Conventionality is not morality.

Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.

If you had to pick between being moral and successful, obviously I'd choose to be moral. However if you can choose both, will you choose both? I'd say definitely.

You see a moral in them? Do we have morals?

Our education gives us the skulls with which to compromise. I worry about the skill to follow our highest ideals.

[Explaining his anti-abortion stance:] When you're functioning out of conviction, you can't think of politics.

The end must justify the means.

The ideologue says “whatever is right works.” The pragmatist says “whatever works is right.”

… how easily moral courage and common decency can be subverted by political expediency.

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or keep one; the man who requires you to do so is dearly purchased at a sacrifice.

Occasionally the conflict between 'what we stand for' and 'what we do' has been forthrightly addressed.

What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest.

What are the values that give meaning? What is the line that you will never cross, because on this side you're good, and on this side you're evil.

I never think the ends justify the means.