James Lovelock Quotes

Don't compromise your principles.

I think my moral ground is very much intact.

You follow what you think is right. There are lines that I won't cross.

Don't pretend that you can just be oblivious to politics. You can't. What you never do is break your personal code. Have a code and keep it. You should never compromise what your priorities are.

You figure out what your standards are, and I think that's important.

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

My principles are more important than the money or my title.

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

You know, I really do have some morals. I do actually care about people. And I do have a political standpoint.

Never compromise your principles, even if it leads to difficulties in the short term.

My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics.

I am really laid back and kind of go-with-the-flow, but I will never do anything that I don't believe in.

I'll never go against my morals.

I cannot sacrifice or compromise my principles.

I myself have constantly refused to print anything that might countenance vice or promote immorality, though … I might have gotten much money.

My integrity is something I hold dear.

I'm never concerned about my beliefs hurting me in any way. I'd rather lose a job than have to lie.

You have to stand by your beliefs.

My career strategy has never been the most important thing; my conscience is.

I certainly could've made a lot more money buying cheap ingredients, and people might not have been able to tell the difference. That was never a part of the calculus. It was not part of my DNA.

I am faithfully devoted to the Republic but will not serve it at the expense of my conscience and my honor.

We manifest character when self-sacrifice for the sake of our principles becomes more important than compromise for the sake of popularity.

Men are guided less by conscience than by glory; and yet the shortest way to glory is to be guided by conscience.

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.

I'm no saint but I do believe in what is right.