George Vecsey Quotes

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.

Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.

If you don't want my God here, you don't want me here either. God has been too good to me to go and try to sell out to get some money.

Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

A good lawyer is a bad Christian.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

I have no regrets. I think we did right, and we couldn't have done differently. In wartime, it was a desperate time .... When you are in a war to the death, I don't think you stand around and ask, is it right?

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

I know in war good people can feel obliged for good reasons to do things they would normally object to and recoil from.

You can't please God and please man at the same time. It's impossible; you can't do it. You've got to choose one.

A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil.

Sometimes you have to do what’s wrong in order to do what’s right.

In trying to avoid one sin I've committed another.

To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue.

Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.

What if what you do to survive kills the things you love?

The story [of the Sacrifice of Isaac ] is much more a part of theology than of history.

He knew. I could see it in his face. Look, if someone gets infected you've got between ten and twenty seconds to kill them. It might be your brother or your sister or your oldest friend. It makes no difference. And just so you know where you stand - if it happens to you, I'll do it in a heartbeat.

Of two Evils we take the less.

But what if you discover that the price of purpose is to render invisible so many other things?

It is the resurrection that makes Good Friday good.

Revolting means for good ends make the ends of themselves revolting.

There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.