John Carroll Lynch Quotes

I can't judge the way other people behave. I can only look at myself.

In my religion it's actually better to know you're doing wrong and try to improve that wrong than to think philosophically that what you're doing is right and in fact it is wrong.

I have to be honest with myself, and make sure I am doing things the right way.

I'm not saying I'm perfect. But I'm someone who analyses and reflects on what I do, whether it's in keeping with the ethics that I talk about in public. That's how I've been all my life.

A guilty conscience means at least you have one.

Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?

I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power.

You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!

Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less.

If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral responsibility. The more we have, the more we grow.

I find that people... very few people think that what they're doing is bad, and usually the people who think what they're doing is bad it has more to do with guilt.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

Whenever you do a thing, tho' it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you and act accordingly.

Stop blaming the world—look inside!

If you choose to put political expediency and politics ahead of the men and women on the ground, for that, you'll have to answer to yourself. I find it morally reprehensible.

I'm constantly having to check my conscience about what I'm writing and the responsibility of what I'm saying.

Obviously everybody is accountable for their own actions, and everybody has to make judgments based on their own conscience as to whether or not they believe what they were doing is right or wrong.

The truth needs to explain why you are the way you are, why you did what you did.

Politics is challenging for everyone's integrity... I have to wake up with myself every morning, and I have to be OK with the person I wake up with. If I string together too many days of waking up with a person I'm not happy to be, I have a lot bigger things at stake in my life than an election or a job.

It is a wicked thing to be neutral between right and wrong.

Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.

Men not living to what they know, cannot blame God, that they know no more.

Whatever you condemn, you have done yourself.

It's your own conscience That is gonna remind you That it's your heart and nobody else's That is gonna judge.