Being honest and adhering to principle requires intelligence more than courage. But, the villainy in that case is their cantankerousness, not their integrity. Finally, some may contend that even if everyone were a model of intellectual integrity, by reason of the great variety of judgments, differences would still remain. This is true. But differences lead in the direction of truth in an atmosphere of honesty.
Honest differences are livable differences.
Life in a physical sense is a compromise, a fact that need not concern us. But when vast numbers of people surrender living by what they believe to be right, it follows that they must then live by what they believe to be wrong. No more destructive tendency can be imagined. Indeed, it is living in its highest sense. This excerpt is taken from his book Having My Way, published by FEE in 1974.