Allison Tolman Quotes

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

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.

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

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

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

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

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.

Principle is ever my motto, not expediency.

My philosophy is different than most of the people up here. I think if you do the right thing and you lose, you still did the right thing. I think if you do less than the right thing and win, it’s morally reprehensible.

Remember that what's right isn't always popular, and what's popular isn't always right.

One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

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

Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

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

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

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

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

It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.

The wrong is wrong and the fall of the majority in such wrong does not justify it. It is known that the right way is difficult and not all the people can follow it, but only the few distinguished for their principles.

Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.

A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.

Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.

A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.

If something is wrong, it matters not if a thousand men are for it; you must still oppose it. If something is just, no amount of popular outcry should stay you from your course.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.