宁为玉碎，不为瓦全

Explanation: Rather be a broken jade, do not do pottery and preservation. Analogy would rather sacrifice for a just cause, do not want to lose integrity, beds many. 　　Usage: Complex sentence; as predicate, attributive, adverbial; with compliment 　　Source: "An Jing Chuan Qi Shu-yuan": "Stick to a real man would rather not guns." 　　Examples: Let ~. Able to break through to break through, if not get out, they fight in the end it. (Yao Xueyin "Rereading," Volume XII) Thesaurus:  Prefer Better be a piece of broken jade than unbroken tile cannot drag out an ignoble existance