Lisa Kleypas Quotes

I'm not saying you did the wrong thing. I'm not even saying it wasn't something I'd thought of doing, myself. But even if it was the just thing to do, or the fitting thing, it still wasn't the right thing.

Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm exists nowhere if not here: in the consequences of human actions as they unfold in time, and the multiple interpretive possibility of those actions.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right than to be responsible and wrong.

When you start off with them being the bad guys and you being the good guys, once you've made that one decision, you don't have to think anymore, if you're in the military. From that point on, anything goes. From that point on, you're capable of anything, even atrocities. Because you've made a decision a long time ago that you're on the right side. You don't keep questioning, questioning, questioning

The idea of 'breaking bad' and what that means in terms of the actions and decisions people make, and why they make them - it makes people question themselves in the 'What would I do?' kind of way.

All sin and all crime comes from the same thing: 'I decided. I decided this was okay.'

There will be good and bad, right and wrong. Your reaction of choice, good or bad, has consequences that affect you and those around you.

Right is what you should do, wrong is what you really want to do.

The most disturbing thing, I think, with people that do very morally devious things more and more often is to see that they completely feel that they had no choice in the matter.

I know the difference between right and wrong, and I can tell good from bad. But I also know that the more difficult decisions come when we have to choose between good and better. The toughest calls of all are those we have to make between bad and worse.

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

Keep in mind, Eragon, that no one thinks himself a villain, and few make decisions they think are wrong. A person may dislike his choice, but he will stand by it because, even in the worst circumstances, he believes that it was the best option available to him at the time.

Every act has both good and evil results. The best we can do is lean to the light.

I shook my head. “I don’t think so. This isn’t a good idea. This isn’t right.” “There’s all kinds of right,” he murmured. “On the spectrum, we’re still in the safe zone.” ... “Definitely right. Usually right,” Patch continued. “Mostly right. Maybe right.

Conscience is the reason employed about questions of right and wrong.

In the end ... success or failure will come down to an ethical decision, one on which those now living will be judged for generations to come.

It is sometimes rational to do what is wrong, and sometimes irrational to do what is right

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

Some day...after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you.

Everything wrong I've ever done has always seemed like the right thing to do at the time.

We do the best we can," she said softly, looking inward. "And punish ourselves for it. I've tried to make my choices with the idea that I've made those choices for the greatest good. Sometimes someone suffers in the process, but I made the decision for the right reason. That should count for something, shouldn't it?

Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life.

A man's acts are usually right, but his reasons seldom are.