Robert Sean Leonard Quotes

Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil.

I do like crossing moral boundaries.

Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.

I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be.

I think evil is very relative.

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.

There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong.

Nothing has ever moulded our conscience so strongly as our knowledge of what is good and what is evil.

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

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good... Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness.

Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.

Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

I think that unless you can take judgments of right and wrong like an automaton, you must have emotions because that is our only way of moral guidance.

Conscience? Great souls do not worry themselves with such little details

Judge Taney can do many things, but he cannot…change the essential nature of things—making evil good, and good, evil.

Conscience: something that feels terrible when everything else feels well.

If the end does not justify the means, what does?

If this isn’t good versus evil, what is?

What are the values that give meaning? What is the line that you will never cross, because on this side you're good, and on this side you're evil.

Any tool can be used for good or bad. It's really the ethics of the artist using it.

Conscience and covetousness are never to be reconciled; like fire and water they always destroy each other, according to the predominancy of the element.