Potter Stewart Quotes

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

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

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

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

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

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

You just have to do what you know is right.

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

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.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

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

I do what I think is right.

People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.

I'm sure there's a right way and there's a wrong way. The bottom line is you have to do what you think is right.

Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that.

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

Moral liberty is the power of following, in all circumstances, our sense of right and wrong, or of acting in conformity to our reflecting and moral principles, without being controlled by any contrary principles.

Everybody is grappling with their own moral compass, and that needle, like any needle, can't just stick. It's always floating a little bit, and depending on where you're standing, it's hard to read.

I have only ever followed my conscience.

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

He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

Fear is the mother of morality.