John J. Mack Quotes

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

In day-to-day life, you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term, it always pays off to be ethical.

I have learned that a clear conscience, or a legal opinion, does not make you ethically bullet proof.

I always felt like I was doing the right thing.

When there's a right and wrong thing to do, choose right regardless of what your friends do.

The imperative is to define what is right and do it.

You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

The wrong is wrong and the fall of the majority in such wrong does not justify it. It is known that the right way is difficult and not all the people can follow it, but only the few distinguished for their principles.

All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy - but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that's how I am guided.

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.

Those who are most moral are farthest from the problem.

We talk so much about one's rights... so little about what is actually right.

In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.

I know what we do is right but right doesn't always mean easy.

In the end, you should always do the right thing, even if it's hard. I know that might not help you and that the right thing isn't always so easy to figure out.

Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods.

I learned one thing in Watergate: I was well-intentioned but rationalized illegal behavior. You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.

You must always do what you feel is right.

The point never to lose sight of is to be guided by the correct thing, as you see it. It's the only way to approach such profound matters and retain your integrity.

Obama hates selling. He thinks people should just accept the right thing to do.

I'm just doing what my conscience asks me to do.