George Clooney Quotes

No doubt, corporate CEOs who lie to their shareholders and politicians who lie to their public know and believe intellectually that lying is immoral. Why then do they lie? They lie to others because they first lie to themselves.

Sometimes people with strong ideology, whether left-wing or right-wing, refuse to do something simply because they believe it is wrong, when doing it actually benefits them. For some people, it's not just about money and political power.

Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage.

You consult your honor; I my interest.

The end must justify the means.

Every time I think of Doug Wilson, I think 'pathetic.' When it comes between something for himself or something for righteousness, he'll choose himself.

The beauty and riddle in studying the motives of any politician is in trying to decide what is idealism and what is self-interest, and often we are left to conclude that the answer is a mixture of the two.

Selfishness is a quality and not necessarily a bad thing.

I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

Many of us, whether in the jungles of Asia or on the streets of Chicago, had discovered that noble causes can lead to ignoble actions and that we were capable of sacrificing honor to a sense of efficacy.

One’s concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one’s personal interest in the issue.

Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud.

If it's anything that's going to result in suffering to animals or people, then I don't think [the end] justifies the means... Yeah; but then again if you could hurt ten people to save 100 people and there was no option, what would you do? I can't really address that.

Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred.

I think ethical ambivalence is a kind of innoculation, a way of excusing yourself in advance for something you actually want to do. No offense.

Self-interest is the most ingenious and persuasive of all the agents that deceive our consciences, while by means of it our unhappy and stubborn prejudices operate in their greatest force.

To have a sense of sin means to feel guilty at there being an ethical choice to make, a guilt which, however "good" I may become, remains unchanged.

Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means.

The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capacity to make the wrong choice more often than not.

The choice between law and justice is an easy one for courageous minds.

There comes a moment in every life when a choice must be made between right and wrong, between good and evil, between light and darkness. These decisions are made in an instant, but with repercussions that last a lifetime.

When one is under pressure, one may lie in order to protect the religion, this is taught in the Qur'an.

Personally, I think neutral is just another way of saving your own ass at the expense of someone else's.

Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them 'has' to be right.