Eric Metaxas Quotes

I fight authority and authority always wins.

Sometimes you have to steer away from the crowd in order to be a better person. It's not always easy, that's for sure. But it's right. And sometimes doing the right thing feels good, even if it does end up in a trip to the principal's office.

If I have to degrade myself or do something that I'm not willing to do as a Christian to get something, I'm just not willing to do it.

Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible, but in that order.

If you ask me to compromise on principle, I will get out the veto pen.

How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.

What is right is not always popular.

To Confucius, harmony was consensus, not conformity. It required loyal opposition.

You don't have to sacrifice who you are to follow your beliefs.

If Republicans are going in the wrong direction, I am still willing to stand up against them.

I am against the whole cliche of the moment.

Any stigma will do to beat a dogma.

My people were divided about surrendering.

I want to stand for something, and it's probably going to be something that some people stand against.

Politics is bad for me because I believe in the truth so much.

You try to force me to do a dishonorable act, contrary to the law as I see it, and against my conscience, and rather than do your bidding I'll suffer my right arm torn from the socket.... I regard you as a damn villain, and get out of my office, or, damn you, I'll kick you out.

I did not clash with the National Party. I clashed with my conscience. And in the end, conscience wins.

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.

The pressure of an all-powerful totalitarian state creates an emotional tension in its citizens that determines their acts. When people are divided into "loyalists" and "criminals" a premium is placed on every type of conformist, coward, and hireling; whereas among the "criminals" one finds a singularly high percentage of people who are direct, sincere, and true to themselves.

The more I loved the king, the more I opposed his injustice until his brow fell lowering upon me. He heaped calumny after calumny on my head, and I chose to be driven out rather than to subscribe.

If you want to challenge the system, don't go to bed with it.

Today, whether it is a student who holds a sit-in to get the army recruiters off his campus, or the mother of a dead soldier who refuses to leave the front gate of the president's ranch, we continue to be saved by brave people who risk ridicule and rejection but end up turning huge tides of public opinion in the direction of righteousness. We owe them enormous debts of gratitude. It is not easy to stand up for what is right, especially when everyone else is afraid to leave the comfortable path of conformity.

In the long run, truth is aided by nothing so much as by opposition.

We must dissent from the fear.

The person who pays an ounce of principle for a pound of popularity gets badly cheated.