Jim DeMint Quotes

The devil is compromise.

We live in a world where everyone thinks they do the right thing, so they are entitled to do the wrong thing. So ends can justify the means.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

You can compromise between good, better, and best, and you can compromise between bad and worse and terrible. But you can't compromise between good and evil. And now people look at the other side as a completely different kind of animal and say, 'They are taking the country down the road to purgatory.' It's complete intolerance.

There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.

Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.

Sometimes the right thing gets done for the wrong reason and sometimes, unfortunately, the wrong thing gets done for the right reason.

Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so.

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.

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

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

It's the dualistic ways of looking at things that produces the evil.

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.

What's right is right, and what's wrong is wrong.

Even good people are obliged to deceive.

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.

We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

Right is right and wrong is wrong.

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

The hardest thing in life is to know when to hold fast to one’s principles and when it is acceptable to bend them.

It was a morally representative act. Helms withheld the information because it would have cost him his job.

The ends do not always justify the means